

There were some interesting moments in these performances that originally […]

It’s been quite a while since we’ve had a CD

Bernard Haitink was known for his selfless, dedicated performances of

Does Simon Rattle do anything consistently well aside from Szymanowski? I mean, for what music does he show a special affinity? What composers does he

These are, by and large, excellent performances, very well played and conducted. My colleague, Jens Laurson, described Noseda’s recording of Symphony No. 8 as “middle-of-the-road,”

Snidely put, Gianandrea Noseda only conducts Italian and Russian works. (He’s musically and linguistically fluent in Russian after having lived and worked in St. Petersburg

It had been a long time between listens to Berlioz’s one-of-a-kind La damnation de Faust, and the very opening seconds caught my attention in a

This is the kind of performance that tries your patience. Why can’t Noseda play the first movement of this symphony up to tempo? The whole

Let’s not waste time. This is a worthless disc. Roman

You can tell that a bad performance of Rachmaninov’s Third
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