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You would expect Michael Gielen to excell in this repertoire, but the results are curiously mixed. He’s predictably fine in the creepy, expressionistic bits, such
This is just incredibly beautiful, sensual music. Although billed as “vocal works with orchestra”, conductor Heinz Holliger offers two orchestral works: the dreamy and mysterious
The workmanlike quality I’ve inferred from many of Gerhard Oppitz’s recordings hardly prepared me for the sheer inspiration and commitment the pianist displays throughout his
Joseph Schwarz was one of the great baritones of the last century, and Hänssler focuses on recordings made between 1916 and 1918 when he was
Of Mendelssohn’s five symphonies, the First responds best to Roger Norrington’s period-based approach. It’s the lightest and also the smallest-scaled, well suited to the reduced
Hänssler has finally decided to offer as individual releases the two performances (Symphonies Nos. 5 & 9) previously available only in Michael Gielen’s complete Mahler
Roger Norrington sets out to replicate period Mendelssohn performances by employing scaled-down orchestral forces and a “pure tone” aesthetic–meaning playing without vibrato. The results are
In the 1930s Gerhard Hüsch (1901-1984) occupied a position among German lieder singers akin to that of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in the 1950s and ’60s. Today
Schumann didn’t start out a lousy orchestrator; he became one, largely a result of his own failures as a conductor, of his inability to get
The presence of liner notes in Japanese leads me to suspect that this disc was specifically released to target the audience in that market, which
