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This stupendous disc contains simply the best recordings of these symphonies currently available. Thomas Fey’s take-no-prisoners approach pays huge dividends. He cultivates a big, rich
Pianist Jenny Lin’s first (and hopefully not last) solo outing for Hänssler Classic brings us a rich gallery of Russian piano preludes dating from the
Peter Bruns is an excellent cellist, and the backing of the Staatskapelle Dresden–for my money Germany’s finest orchestra, the one with timbral qualities so very
Ernest Bour was a conductor of unassuming excellence who made his interpretive points not through attention-grabbing distortions of tempo and oddities of phrasing, but through
Two discs’ worth of transfigured and hyphenated Bach make for an interesting if somewhat heavy program, akin to eating a nine-course, all-meat dinner on a
There’s something indefinably appealing about this 1952, rough-and-ready live Beethoven Seventh. Maybe it’s the electricity of a live performance, or the clear impression that everyone
These are very clean, clear, adept performances of the two Shostakovich piano concertos. Florian Uhlig captures the brittle high-spirits of No. 1 very well, with
As to Hänssler’s “DDD” indication on the back sleeve of this 20th-century grab bag, I’m certain the 1975 recording of Scriabin’s Third Symphony derives from
Party record alert! This stupifyingly dull record is appalling. Roger Norrington claims in his notes that there was no such thing as continuous vibrato in
Sylvain Cambreling’s acute familiarity with Debussy’s orchestral style makes for exceptionally translucent performances wherein manifold inner details emerge with unprecedented clarity, yet always within the
