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Julia Fischer’s solo Bach recordings add up to quite an impressive achievement for a 21-year-old violinist. Not only has she mastered her instrument on just
My youthful memory of Misha Dichter’s 1977 Brahms D minor concerto with Kurt Masur on LP was that of an agreeable, well played, middle-of-the-road, and
Mari Kodama’s Op. 2 Beethoven sonatas reveal every note exactly in place (save for certain exposed unison octaves in the C major’s first movement, where
Phew! What a relief to learn that the Russian National Orchestra can, after all, play Russian music when working with a conductor who knows what
If Colin Davis had had the self-discipline to quit while he was ahead, with this Sibelius cycle, I have no doubt he would have been
The most common failing in Brahms symphony performances concerns rhythm. His constant alternation (and combination) of duple and triple meters, and the use of syncopation,
Pentatone’s remastered reissue of Heinz Holliger’s baroque concerto program, a mid-1970s LP staple on Philips, will be welcomed back by all but the most diehard
Why a “2” for performance? I don’t know. It might as well be a “1”, but I guess the orchestra deserves some credit for following
Marc Albrecht understands the key to much of this music: play it fast. Strauss needs a sense of urgency, and in Don Juan that’s just
Martin Helmchen appears to be an earnest and fairly solid Schubert player, whose main attribute is not getting in the way of the scores. Nor
