Shaw Janacek

Robert Shaw’s amazing choral prowess shows in the sumptuous sound of this Glagolitic Mass. As in many of his Atlanta performances, Shaw is more attuned

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Chausson Symphony

Ernest Chausson’s Symphony has not exactly enjoyed a deluge of recordings, but this one makes perhaps the strongest case for the work. Michel Plasson’s free-flowing,

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Shebalin

Vissarion Shebalin (1902 – 1963) was an esteemed professor at the Moscow Conservatory, where he taught composition to Edison Denisov and Sofia Gubaidulina among others

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Dukas

Paul Dukas’ Symphony in C has had relatively few champions, but none so great as Jean Martinon. This is arguably the finest performance of the

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Tchaikovsky Third

Vladimir Fedoseyev’s Tchaikovsky Third is a great improvement over his torpid reading of Symphony No. 1, reviewed earlier. He appears to have dumped the conductorial

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Bertini Das Lied

Gary Bertini’s Mahler is one of amazing transparency: so many details register for the first time that it makes you reconsider music you may have

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Honegger

There may have been better played performances of Pacific 231 (Zinman’s recent Decca recording, for example), but Jean Martinon’s typically clear, expertly balanced effort reveals

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War Requiem Shaw

Typically fine solo and choral singing in admirably clear Robert Shaw fashion provide the only attraction to what is otherwise a dull proposition. I’ve had

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