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This is Bernard Haitink’s second go at Strauss’ An Alpine Symphony. The first, from 1985, had as it’s main distinguishing feature the velvety sound of
Valery Gergiev’s previous recording of this work suffered from dull sonics and less than stellar playing from the Kirov orchestra. These two defects have been
There have been about a dozen recordings of Bluebeard’s Castle; it is ideally suited to the medium. Every production of it I have seen has
Mahler’s so-called “Symphony of a Thousand” certainly sounds it in this new live recording by Valery Gergiev and his assembled forces. This results not so
Mahler’s Second Symphony is so colorful and so well stage-managed that it’s possible to find great performances by conductors who aren’t specialists in this repertoire.
This is Colin Davis’ third recording of these symphonies, and by far the least impressive. Even his otherwise not wonderful LSO coupling of these same
This performance starts with a bang, but ends with a whimper. The Mahler Third is admittedly a schizophrenic work, starting with perhaps his most colorful
Valery Gergiev has nothing particularly interesting to say about this symphony. The first movement begins without the necessary rhythmic crispness and doesn’t really catch fire
Valery Gergiev’s interpretation of Mahler’s First Symphony has many individual touches, some of which work, and some of which don’t. On the plus side, he
This release bodes well for the Mahler cycle announced by the LSO under Valery Gergiev. The performance it most resembles is Solti’s Chicago recording on
