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There’s something strangely provincial about this production. It’s beautifully packaged, with an extra CD in which Boulez discusses–in three languages–his “discovery” of Szymanowski, and it
This is the best Boulez recording in quite a while. He offers the canonic 12 Wunderhorn songs, meaning no Urlicht and no Das himmlische Leben
Alice Sara Ott makes the Tchaikovsky and Liszt piano concertos seem like natural disc mates, especially as her passionate, rubato-laden Tchaikovsky sounds as if it
Pierre-Laurent Aimard’s playing and Boulez’s conducting are both very good–but just a touch flat as compared to the best of the competition. In the Left
Jennifer Higdon has been listed among composers writing in the so-called “neo-romantic” style. However her Violin Concerto goes beyond this as she evolves a “transcendental
I’ve always had a soft spot for Andrei Gavrilov’s 1993 Goldberg Variations (available again courtesy of Arkivmusic.com’s on-demand reprint program), despite the fact that this
First things first. Make sure to turn up the volume when playing this low-level live recording, lest you get the impression that nothing’s going on
John Adams’ City Noir was commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and premiered by Gustavo Dudamel in his debut concert as the orchestra’s music director
This is what happens when a “concept album” goes wrong. The somewhat desperate full title of this collection is “Summer Night Concert Schönbrunn 2010: Moon,
For a collection of almost complete Mahler (as with the EMI box, Die Drei Pintos–the complete opera–is missing since the only complete recordings are the
