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It seems that reviewing music naturally gives rise to cooking (and specifically barbecue) analogies, at least when the performances demand superlatives: smoking, searing, scorching, flaming,
Esa-Pekka Salonen is not a conductor that you normally associate
This live performance is generally well played (aside from a minor slip or two from the percussion) and naturally recorded. The generous depth of the
Mariss Jansons’ live Mahler 7 from Bavaria wasn’t very good, but this live version from Oslo is distinctly better. Not only does the orchestra seem
Cellist Daniel Müller-Schott and André Previn team up for an absolutely outstanding coupling of the two most important English cello concertos. Every recording of the
In the early 1870s Johan Svendsen and his American wife Sally Levett got to be friends with Dick and Cosima Wagner. According to Simax’s booklet
Olav Anton Thommessen has made a career writing works based on older music, not in the sense of, say, Stravinsky’s Pulcinella, in which the model
EMI recorded quite a few discs with Mariss Jansons and the Oslo Philharmonic. Among other things there was this partial Dvorák cycle, and also a
These two performances, recorded live in absolutely stunning sound, make a well-earned tribute to the Oslo Philharmonic, a group that under Jansons’ tutelage has become
Hilary Hahn’s latest release is yet one more sign that this 22-year-old definitely is not a flash-in-the-pan child prodigy, but rather already is one of
