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There are very few instances on recordings of “bad” Messiaen. His musical style is too particular and his principal interpreters were too close to him
This is the same Mahler Fourth that first appeared on Intercord about a decade ago (it dates from 1988), and it’s a very good one.
Ferdinand Leitner leads a solid, very traditional Bruckner Sixth with judiciously chosen tempos, an eloquently sung slow movement, and a touch of stodginess in the
Michael Gielen favors strictly proportional tempos in the first movement of Schubert’s “Great” C major symphony, with the result that the introductory Andante sounds faster
Sylvain Cambreling offers up a rhythmically slack, emotionally neutered Romeo and Juliet, denying Berlioz’s highly original yet sprawling masterpiece the crisp articulation, pointed accents, and
Michael Gielen has a solid reputation as a conductor of Bruckner and Mahler, and this new Resurrection Symphony upholds it handsomely. His reading of Symphony
No opera lover would contradict you if you said that the lamented Fritz Wunderlich, who died from a fall down a flight of stairs in
So Roger Norrington has at last reached the 20th century. I doubt anyone could have imagined when he first started doing “authentic” Beethoven in the
The raison d’être for this release seems to be the curiosity of having these familiar works played on the claviorganum, a hybrid instrument that couples
As recent recordings on Teldec and Chandos have shown, Antonio Rosetti was a marvelous composer with a fresh, original classical style. Although he used the
