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Felix Weingartner’s symphonies go through all the motions: the allegros try to be purposefully developmental, the adagios strive for elevated tone. The finale of the
Malipiero’s six piano concertos span a good bit of his long life (he died in 1973, aged 91) and they are all of a piece.
What can you say about a composer whose music is so rhythmically flabby and lacking in contrast that everything basically sounds like everything else? It’s
Reznicek was one of the very few composers of his day who had a sense of humor, ranging from open-hearted amusement to the most refined
Dating from the early 1920s, Hindemith’s Op. 19 Tanzstücke decorates popular and jazz-influenced dance forms of the day in dour dissonances. However, occasional winks and
This remarkably bloated work–it runs for three hours and 24 minutes and features a 16-minute overture–is necessary listening for Wagner family completists and those who
Markus Becker is both master and slave to the fast tempos he chooses for the Hammerklavier’s outer movements, which come close to matching Beethoven’s optimistic
Carl Reinecke was a good composer; his basic amiability and mellifluousness has counted against him, but if you take the time to listen you will
This two-disc set makes an excellent companion to CPO’s fine set of Milhaud symphonies, also conducted (very well, as here) by Alun Francis. If anything,
There are Meisters, and there are “Kleinmeisters” (“minor masters”), and then there are “Überkleinmeisters” (“really minor masters”). Herzogenberg belongs to this last category. Like so
