Brahms: Symphony No. 2/Gardiner

John Eliot Gardiner’s fresh take on Brahms’ Symphony No. 2 is only partially about performing forces. The Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique’s period-based proportions yield impressive

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A Winterreise of Manners

Nathalie Stutzmann’s traversal of this most emotionally devastating of song cycles is excessively mannered. I’ve admired several of her previous recordings, including recitals of French

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Litton Mahler 3rd

There was a time when new recordings of Mahler symphonies were major events, eagerly anticipated by the Mahler faithful, propagated by specialist conductors and orchestras

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