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After two relatively uninteresting Beethoven cycles, I was not exactly looking forward to this release, but happily Bernard Haitink delivers a splendid interpretation of Beethoven’s
Colin Davis recorded a Kullervo Symphony with the LSO as part of his often lousy complete symphony cycle for RCA. His ongoing series of remakes
This set conveniently brings together Colin Davis’ LSO Elgar symphony cycle–but the results are mixed. To recapitulate: Davis pokes at the First Symphony like a
It’s always gratifying when non-Czech performers take up this work, not just for the fresh insights that they bring, but also because great music needs
When Colin Davis is on form, he’s as engaging, exciting, and convincing as any conductor living or dead. He’s in top shape here, and so
If all of the Colin Davis/LSO Live productions were this good you would think this partnership the finest in the world. Whatever the pluses and
This was bad repertoire selection. I love Rostropovich’s Shostakovich, and I love the LSO in this work, but you can have Rostropovich in far better
Unlike Colin Davis’ disappointing remakes of Dvorák Symphonies 7-9, this Sixth bespeaks the freshness of a new discovery, which (discographically speaking) it is for Davis,
This is Rostropovich’s third recording of the Fifth Symphony, and all of them are very similar in conception. His first, on DG, is the least
When he’s “on”, Bernard Haitink is such a sincere, musical conductor that it’s distressing just how patchy his work seems to be nowadays. Take this
