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In his booklet note conductor David Montgomery makes the argument that Leonard Bernstein’s approach to his own music was not the only way, especially when
Conductor Christopher Hogwood is not a name you would normally associate with Aaron Copland and Samuel Barber. Yet this period-performance Handel/Mozart specialist turns in surprisingly
This is a pretty droopy selection of Falla favorites. El amor brujo isn’t done complete: with no singer on hand Adrian Leaper either leaves the
This is quite an enjoyable Bartók album, featuring an intriguing sample of his early and late-period works. The masterpiece of course is Music for Strings,
It’s so easy today to get superior quality at a low price in the classical music world, but this isn’t one of those times. For
Pianist Irina Ossipova admirably navigates the burly textures of Medtner’s Forgotten Melodies, while her impulsive temperament and capacity to sustain their most note-laden climaxes are
This is a respectable if not especially compelling set of Berwald symphonies; David Montgomery’s moderate tempos and tidy phrasing do a decent job of presenting
When it comes to Schumann’s over-recorded C major Fantasy, pianist Matthias Kirschnereit is a poker, not a sweeper, nor a painter, and not too much
The main obstacle here concerns Arte Nova’s thin, dynamically constricted, monochrome sound quality. It makes the presumed concert grand Peter Dmitriev uses sound like a
Spare a twinge of sympathy for the Bruckner Orchestra Linz. Unless you’re a brass player, Bruckner is one of the least fun composers to play,
