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During a relatively long career in music, I’ve noticed that most people–listeners and performers–claim to prefer “happy” music to what they consider “sad” or “melancholy”.
Oh boy, here we go again. Vänskä has turned the
This latest installment in Thomas Dausgaard’s ongoing effort to downsize the romantic symphonic repertoire isn’t as bad as some of his previous releases, but it’s
This is a wonderful program, both for the performances and for the intelligent overview it gives of Respighi’s art generally. It begins with a piece
As time goes on, the clearer it becomes that for Tomas Dausgaard music starts with Carl Nielsen. In very late romantic and twentieth-century repertoire, he
This has got to be the most expressively sterile, emotionally neutral performance of Mahler’s Fifth yet captured on disc. I might call it a “CD
With this release Yevgeny Sudbin and Osmo Vänskä complete their survey of Beethoven’s piano concertos, and once again make these ubiquitous scores sound new by
Ronald Brautigam brings his solo Beethoven cycle for BIS to a triumphant conclusion with the long-awaited Diabelli Variations, in one of its finest recordings ever.
This is a perfect disc. Andrew Litton’s Prokofiev symphonies have been inconsistent so far, ranging from an excellent Sixth to a ho-hum Fifth. Here absolutely
Gotta love that cover photo–conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin arms outstretched, mouth agape like a baby bird waiting for mommy bird to fly by and drop in
