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This is as fine a Mahler First as just about any in the catalogue. Yannick Nézet-Séguin has paid his dues and is evidently maturing nicely
This performance of Beethoven’s thorniest choral work is what one might expect from the great Bernard Haitink: pinpoint precision and an authentic, non-doctrinaire, ego-free reading.
This new recording of Verdi’s Requiem joins about 60 others in the catalog. There’s always a push-pull in this work–is it an opera in disguise,
Strauss’ An Alpine Symphony is many things: huge, glitzy, tuneful,
Stephen Sondheim does not consider Sweeney Todd an opera, but that doesn’t stop his 1979 musical theater masterpiece from turning up in opera houses and
It’s nice to have available a new performance of Schubert’s
Any conductor who makes a new recording of repertoire in which he has already done sterling work and fails to surpass himself should have his
These performances don’t show Kondrashin at his absolute best, but even so there’s a lot to enjoy. God knows, the Franck is light-years better than
Colin Davis delivers an excellent performance of Vaughan Williams’ Sixth Symphony, aptly ferocious in the first movement, threatening in the second, with a raucous scherzo
The booklet note calls this the “1887 version after the Critical Edition by Leopold Nowak”, but it’s just our old friend, the Haas Edition. I
