
Pehr Henrik Nordgren’s music almost always adopts a tone of high seriousness, even tragedy, which makes it less than “fun” in the conventional sense, though
On evidence here, Miah Persson would make a much better Susanna than Fiordiligi. She’s delightful in the three arias written either for that character or
You really want to like this better than you probably will. The performances are excellent, and as always with BIS, they’re extremely well recorded. Conductor
Osmo Vänskä already has acquired an international reputation as a Beethoven conductor, thanks to some outstanding performances that he gave with the BBC Scottish Symphony
There’s no denying Masaaki Suzuki’s Bach credentials, but despite plenty of virtuosity and enthusiasm, these performances are let down by two factors. The first of
This is BIS’s third installment of orchestral music by Gösta Nystroem, and I have to confess that it got lost in the shuffle when it
There’s no doubt that Miguel Baselga’s impetuous temperament and skillful instrumental prowess suit the unfettered virtuosity that permeates much of Albéniz’s piano music. If anything,
Alexander Lokshin wrote 11 symphonies, all but one of which include sung texts. He was without question a connoisseur of fine literature, and his choice
This is the second installment of the Tapiola Sinfonietta’s traversal of Mozart Serenades for winds and strings, and based on the contents of this disc
This is one of those “voice crying in the wilderness” reviews, because I know perfectly well that no one takes Rimsky-Korsakov very seriously these days,