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Ideology has done much to shape how we listen to baroque music. There was, for one, the one-voice-per-part coterie around Joshua Rifkin that insisted on
Poulenc’s choral music would be a lot more popular with choirs if it just wasn’t so darned difficult to sing. Because it’s the sort of
The Bottom Line: Smart coupling, beautiful Second Serenade, gorgeous sound, but a disappointing Third Symphony, whose outer movements lack rhythm and excitement, even with an
Iván Fischer has nothing to tell us in Mahler’s Seventh Symphony. Indeed, the music defeats him at virtually every turn. The first movement introduction (and
Iván Fischer has his orchestra playing so beautifully that I
Ukrainian pianist Anna Fedorova’s previous two solo CDs revealed her sensitivity and thoughtfulness, along with a tendency to fuss over details and lose sight of
When Rachel Podger recorded the Bach Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin—for the second time—in 2001, it was a subtle-yet-radiant effort; certainly one of the
After a number of well-executed renditions of Shostakovich string quartets by Candida Thompson and the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, this Bartók Divertimento strangely disappoints. The normally arresting
Iván Fischer seems to have caught a severe case of Micro-Managitus, not that we couldn’t see it coming. The symptoms are evident in the Midsummer
The playing on this disc is so beautiful that it
