This release really is the "essential" Stravinsky in the sense that every major piece of his entire oeuvre is represented here and in chronological order. You get a picture of his compositional style and how it changed over the course of his career. It ends with a bonus track, an animated recollection by Stravinsky of the writing and premiere of ...
For more than three decades, Leonard Bernstein's Mass has only been available in the Columbia Masterworks and Sony editions, conducted by the composer. Kent Nagano's ambitious recreation for Harmonia Mundi provides an alternate interpretation, varied here and there in tempi, in minor changes of lyrics, and in slightly different characterizations ...
For more than three decades, Leonard Bernstein's Mass has only been available in the Columbia Masterworks and Sony editions, conducted by the composer. Kent Nagano's ambitious recreation for Harmonia Mundi provides an alternate interpretation, varied here and there in tempi, in minor changes of lyrics, and in slightly different characterizations ...
This nine-CD box was a lot more attractive when it first showed up in 1999, before Sony Music introduced its Direct Stream Digital mastering and super-audio CDs -- it's not quite the state-of-the-art reissue that it seemed then, as the state-of-the-art has been advancing ever-faster, but it's still an alluring package. The concept behind the ...
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