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A minor caveat first. Listeners will have to adjust to the voice/orchestra balance: the former is highlighted to an irritating degree in Act 1. This
Despite gorgeous SACD sonics and magnificent playing (with one notable exception), this Wagner collection fails to satisfy completely. It begins well, with a light and
I was very taken with the Walküre from this same source, praising in particular the conducting of Simone Young. Again here, in the Cycle’s final
This remarkably “alive” performance of Lohengrin was made after a couple of concert performances (we are told in the accompanying booklet) and it features the
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
The DSD-mastered surround mix on this hybrid SACD release captures more of the sound of the symphony than I have ever heard (for a review
The Third, more than any other Mahler Symphony, requires an orchestra willing to make an authentic Mahler sound. No conductor can teach an unwilling band
This is one of the best-played, least-gripping Tristans I’ve ever encountered. It isn’t often that by the fourth note of any grand piece of music
Mahler’s “Resurrection” always has been the ultimate audiophile symphony, something recording producers have recognized since the dawn of hi-fi stereo, starting with Bruno Walter’s 1958
Hard to believe, but it’s been more than three decades since the fabled Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra took Mahler’s Second Symphony into the studio, and a
