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Billed as the start of a new complete Shostakovich symphony cycle, this initial entry holds a great deal of promise. The Eleventh Symphony has more
Another very successful SACD: Telarc has managed sound that envelops the listener without excessive rear-channel activity or that dulling of impact that seems endemic to
A gorgeous recording, this. Gerard Schwarz recorded the luminously hymn-like Mysterious Mountain and the majestic Mount St. Helens symphonies for Delos, and those performances no
My only reservation about the sharply etched, musicianly performances contained on this disc concerns a slightly diffuse orchestra perspective that doesn’t quite mesh with the
As recordings of Tchaikovsky’s Manfred Symphony go, Vasily Petrenko’s occupies the middle ground between exciting (Muti, Ashkenazy) and dull (Previn–painfully so). Petrenko effectively evokes Tchaikovsky’s
This 50th-anniversary recording of West Side Story is good only as long as no one sings. Nick Ingman leads the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic in an
Growing up as I did in the New England prep-school tradition, I had the opportunity to sing in some half-dozen Gilbert and Sullivan operettas (we
William Alwyn’s Elizabethan Dances cleverly alternates music evocative of Tudor and modern times, recalling the reigns of both Queen Elizabeths. It’s a work that deserves
Oration is a magnificent, brooding work and Raphael Wallfisch brings the same level of passion and commitment to it that characterized his recent, outstanding release
Here’s an enormously useful and enjoyable disc containing some well-known favorites (Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus, Toward the Unknown Region), alongside three rarities. The
