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Debussy’s ubiquitous Ibéria opens the program, perhaps as an appetizer for the less familiar Turina works. Jesús López-Cobos takes a swift and breezy approach, leaving
This is a very impressive Rachmaninov 2nd. Paavo Järvi’s lithe, athletic phrasing and generally brisk tempos keep the energy level high while generating much excitement
This is a spectacular recording, not just in the “blockbuster” sense of containing four big, splashy orchestral works, extremely well recorded, but also because Paavo
This is the third recording of Kullervo to appear in SACD multichannel sound in just the past few months (the others being Davis on LSO
The Rachmaninov Third Piano Concerto has become the archetype virtuoso showpiece pianists use to dazzle us with their technical prowess. Lang Lang however, offers a
It would be nice to hail Liszt’s oratorio St. Stanislaus, billed by Telarc as a “world premiere recording”, as a neglected masterpiece. Alas, it’s not.
The gripping Intrada to Lutoslawski’s Concerto for Orchestra, with its pounding timpani and gutsy strings, immediately displays the stunning high-fidelity sound Telarc has achieved on
We need to think of Rhapsody in Blue more from a jazz than a classical perspective, says jazz pianist Michael Camilo, an assertion he backs
Donald Runnicles leads this fine program of shadowy, late-Romantic music with an assured hand. His Prelude to Tristan und Isolde is taken very broadly and
Orfeo ed Eurydice may be Gluck’s most popular opera, but this one, Iphigénie en Tauride, is probably his greatest. I normally hate his reformations–I like
