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[A re-post in remembrance of Ned Rorem, 1923-2022] This is a very easy call: marvelous music, exceptional performances, top-notch engineering–it all adds up to the
Here’s a very promising start to what I assume will be a new Beethoven piano concerto cycle, featuring performances not otherwise included in Naxos’ “complete”
Have today’s conductors and orchestras forgotten how to play loudly? I sometimes wonder. Perhaps Manze’s baroque bona fides hamper him in more opulently scored music;
This disc fills a useful gap in the discography of
This coupling makes a lot of sense. Stravinsky began where late Rimsky-Korsakov left off, as you can plainly hear in the more slithery, chromatic (or
Andrew Manze’s lite-touch manner works better in Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Symphony No. 5, where he successfully conveys the music’s pastoral and elegiac modes, especially in
This is Bernstein without soul: neat, clean, but ultimately rather sterile. Granted, “soul” is a quality that’s difficult to quantify, but it certainly can be
Rachmaninov’s mini-cantata Spring tells of a husband intent on murdering his unfaithful wife, who then abandons his plans upon the arrival of spring. The melodically
This second release in Manze’s ongoing Vaughan Williams cycle, containing A Pastoral Symphony and Symphony No. 4, isn’t quite as good as its predecessor. It
We have no shortage of excellent versions of the two Shostakovich piano concertos, including Igoshina’s on CPO and Marc-André Hamelin’s on Hyperion. Here is another.
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