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What a hugely disappointing, utterly routine, bland performance this is. Virtually everything that Markus Stenz does robs the music of color, impact, and grandeur. Take
Markus Stenz and his team present the extended selection of Wunderhorn songs, including “Urlicht” (as Bernstein first did in his marvelous recording with Ludwig/Berry) and
This Beethoven Ninth, the second such offering from Philippe Herreweghe, marks the completion of his cycle with the Royal Flemish Philharmonic. After the recent Krivine
Well now, this is more like it! After a comparatively uninteresting Fifth Symphony for this label (not to be confused with his outstanding Melbourne recording
No performance of the Ninth with chamber forces has ever done it justice, and good as this is (or at least consistent as this cycle
One of the welcome byproducts of the flood of Mozartiana churned out in response to this 250th anniversary year is the reissue of worthy titles,
Mitridate was Mozart’s first opera seria, composed for Milan in 1770. No sane person would call it a masterpiece: even within the standards of opera
Ninety-one years and a turn of century later, Alban Berg’s String Quartet Op. 3 no longer shocks as it once did, but rather sounds more
Thomas Quasthoff’s voice is one of remarkable agility, color, and emotional range, and on this CD, which primarily contains music from operas very few people
Bach’s Magnificat radiates spiritual joy and compositional daring, qualities Helmuth Rilling broaches but never quite embraces in his new recording of this popular work. This
