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Since Thierry Fischer took over the reins as its music director in 2009, the Utah Symphony has not only thrived but blossomed, as its recent
Thierry Fischer leads the Utah Symphony in a very respectable performance of Saint-Saëns’ ever-popular but difficult to put across Third Symphony. It gets better as
As collectors will recall with varying degrees of fondness, the enterprising Utah Symphony led off the Mahler boom on LP for Vanguard records, with a
John Duffy’s music offers just the ticket for classical music fans looking for a vibrant, engaging personality working with traditional tonal harmony and real tunes.
Those with an acquired taste for angry, complex, 12-tone-sounding social protest music will find William Kraft’s Contextures II: The Final Beast (1985-1986) a superior specimen.
This disc was recorded in 2004, just before Reference Recordings was inadvertently swallowed up in the Dorian Distribution Debacle, and it’s very heartening to see
It’s a strange fact that conductors very well known for other kinds of music written in a very different style often do quite well by
These performances of Sibelius’ last three symphonies are a mixed bag, yet they have undeniable attractions. Maurice Abravanel manages a very satisfyingly heroic coda to
Maurice Abravanel’s Mahler Seventh comes very close to Michael Gielen’s, featuring swift tempos and analytical clarity of textures. His straightforward approach pays big dividends in
These performances have a lot to recommend them. Maurice Abravanel’s Sibelius always offers shapely, intelligent interpretations–and in some cases much more than that. This First
