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Sally Beamish is the very model of a modern, well-trained composer. Her music is not exactly atonal, nor is it melodic. It isn’t ferociously dissonant,
Between the opera/ballets of Rameau and Beethoven’s Prometheus (which, overture aside, no one particularly likes), how many free-standing ballets by Classical composers do we care
Having Dvorák’s Sixth and Ninth symphonies on a single, 82-minute-plus CD certainly represents an enticing proposition, but in the end it turns out, in the
Flute concertos constitute one of the few media in which it’s generally more interesting to listen to contemporary music than to the works of past
I have the highest respect for Thomas Dausgaard’s conducting. His Beethoven with this same orchestra has been sensational, and he almost always reveals a keen
It’s hard to believe that Carl Reinecke lived until 1910 (he was born in 1824), writing these two works for flute just a couple of
On evidence here, Miah Persson would make a much better Susanna than Fiordiligi. She’s delightful in the three arias written either for that character or
This is one of those discs that features both excellent individual performances and a total package that adds up to more than the sum of
It’s impossible any more to speak of a single “right way” to play Beethoven. In fact, there are at least four distinct styles, all of
There’s no point in criticizing the superb playing of the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, but conductor Petter Sundkvist is another matter entirely. It’s a classic case
