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Felix Mendelssohn’s First Piano Concerto in G minor is hardly a youthful effort, seeing that at 22 Mendelssohn was already a grizzled veteran and roughly
Estonian composer Eino Tamberg (b. 1930) is the real deal–a
Neeme Järvi’s quick speeds in this music can be interesting, provocative, and exciting. Not here. The outer movements go well enough, their swiftness never getting
This is a wonderfully intelligent program: Erich Korngold’s by now very familiar concerto coupled with a totally unknown but equally attractive piece taken from exactly
Neeme Järvi has no cachet as a Bruckner conductor, and his performance of the Eighth Symphony for Chandos was pretty dreadful, so expectations for this
Pianist Stefan Askenase (1896-1985) was known for his Chopin interpretations in addition to his reputation as a teacher, whose pupils include such luminaries as Martha
Here’s how you make an “American” ballet: First, choose a super-American topic (such as the building of the Union Pacific railway); second, use quirky, off-kilter
Dutch composer Matthijs Vermeulen’s wildly complex and inventive music resists easy classification, and yet it does not really do his work justice to say it
Chandos’ first disc of orchestral music by Cornelis Dopper was very enjoyable, but this is better still. The Third Symphony, subtitled “Rembrandt” (apparently for no
The Dutch are way too hard on themselves. So far, Chandos has released three discs (including this one) in its ongoing Dutch composers series featuring
