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I have to confess, I seldom listen to these pieces. Not because everyone agrees that they aren’t “great” Mozart, but because most performances usually fall
There’s a tendency on the part of some performers to play Beethoven’s First and Second Piano Concertos as if they were really by Mozart–all elegance,
Spohr’s four clarinet concertos deserve exposure far beyond the small coterie of woodwind aficionados. They are truly lovely works, formally interesting (check out the poetic,
With the exception of Viatore (which means “Wanderer”), all of this music has been recorded before, and very well. That doesn’t make this disc any
This series goes from strength to strength. In a world overflowing with Beethoven symphonies, these performances have in abundance the all-important qualities of freshness and
This is a disappointing release. The Swedish Chamber Orchestra certainly plays with world-class skill, but conductor Béla Drahos underplays the music to the point of
British composer Sally Beamish’s (b. 1956) career didn’t take off until 1990, even though she had been composing since the age of four. Beamish’s language
Thomas Dausgaard’s reading of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony is Wagner’s “Apotheosis of the dance” made manifest. This is a performance of boundless energy and irresistible spirit
Any composer dubbed by Haydn as “one of the greatest geniuses I have met” deserves serious attention. One such was German-born Joseph Martin Kraus. Born
Let’s be open to the possibility that the world needs another Beethoven symphony cycle, and that the performers have uncovered previously unglimpsed virtues in the
