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The Vienna Philharmonic never has played Mahler particularly well, or with evident enthusiasm. It needs to be forced. Bernstein could get the orchestra to do
This disc offers more than you might expect. Rafael Kubelik’s DG recording of the Serenade for Strings always has been one of the best: shapely,
It’s an attractive idea: The New York Philharmonic plays a concert on March 31, 2006 and has it for sale on May 23 by digital
On April 28, 2006, the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Esa-Pekka Salonen played a concert, and on May 9 this recording of it was available for
When technological innovations hit the consumer world–like Deutsche Grammophon’s May, 2006 introduction of download-only concert recordings on Apple’s iTunes Music Store–journalists often describe the event
There are many things to admire in this new Clemenza, but it does not push either the Hogwood or Gardiner out of their tie for
The opening of Trio No. 6 (placed first on the disc) does not bode well: the initial exchange between violin and piano seems to promise
First the good news: Nicola Benedetti makes a strikingly sexy impression on the disc cover, and she also plays the violin quite well. Her tone
Yundi Li’s direct, sharply etched, upbeat account of Mozart’s wonderful C major K. 330 sonata would do any pianist proud. Its virtues particularly hit home
This Prokofiev compilation from Deutsche Grammophon’s new Panorama “twofer” series (two discs for the price of one) receives a 10/10 rating on the basis of
