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There’s a little joke behind the innocuous name of Ernest Bloch’s Symphony in E-flat. It is, in truth, one of his most harmonically acerbic works,
Not bad, but far from excellent. Katarina Karnéus has a nice feeling for the texts, and an attractive voice that sounds well as long as
Rather than approximate the “authentic” sound of their time, these performances of Mozart’s violin concertos place them in an earlier era–around the time of Vivaldi.
Were it not for his sprightly sense of rhythm and freshly folk-like melodic inspiration, Ole Olsen’s relentlessly cheerful music might strike you as just a
The playing here is generally excellent, but in the Freischütz Overture you miss the heavy-duty atmosphere of German romanticism: the opening is evocative but the
All of the discs in this set have been reviewed individually, and in detail. Still, it’s worth pointing out that this is unquestionably one the
In a previous review (well, several) I mentioned the fact that a lot of basic repertoire is being recorded merely to take advantage of SACD
Vadim Gluzman must be one of the two or three finest violinists currently active, and we can only hope he stays loyal to BIS and
Alexander Chaushian and Yevgeny Sudbin don’t let their hair down in the Rachmaninov cello sonata as do Wendy Warner and Irina Nuzova, who display noticeably
Here’s a disc full of marvelous contemporary music, plain and simple. Jan Sandström’s pieces have recognizable tunes (not essential, but it never hurts), orchestration both
