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Riccardo Muti prioritizes beauty of sound over all else in this performance, with the result that you pay far more attention to the orchestral playing
This is a great performance of Shostakovich’s grimly epic Thirteenth Symphony, a work that Muti has championed for many years. Everyone involved is in top
Riccardo Muti made an absolutely stunning recording of the first two suites (more or less) from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet with the Philadelphia Orchestra for
Ravishing orchestral playing and choral work combined with an unmatchable understanding of Verdi makes this, despite some issues with regard to the soloists, a very
Both Bernard Haitink and this orchestra separately recorded benchmark versions of Ein Heldenleben, so the prospect of putting the two together was enticing. The result,
Pierre Boulez has become a “grand old man”, and for the past decade or so he has conducted like one. He used to be fabulous
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra probably can play this symphony by heart, and certainly its fabled brass (particularly trombones and horns), as well as the superb
Bernard Haitink’s somewhat stogy tempo for the opening movement of Poulenc’s Gloria (Gloria in excelsis deo) initially raises fears of a dull performance to come.
The Chicago Symphony has recorded this symphony at least five times (Haitink, Solti, Abbado, Giulini, and Boulez), and so has Haitink. Only the Boulez/Chicago recording
Haitink begins this recording, at least his fourth Mahler Sixth, with an incredibly slow march, not necessarily a problem given the excellent low strings of
