With the performers on this disc, you would expect first-rate performances of Dvorák's Violin Concerto and his Piano Quintet. Unfortunately, no matter what you think of the performances, the sound quality of the recording will leave you disappointed. In both the concerto and the quintet, the sound from everyone is rather thin and flat. The depth ...
One beneficiary of a trend to give film music more respect is Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, one of the great symphonic composers of all time, who also wrote nearly fifty film scores. While many of these were for flat out cinematic propaganda hack-work, he wrote surprising good music even for films of that sort, and outstanding music for ...
Listeners may be puzzled by the many changes in color, expression, and energy in these performances of James Aikman's Sonatas for violin and piano (3); and in noting the number of musicians involved, some may feel that they are hearing a recording of a violin competition or a master class. While violinist Alexander Kerr and pianist Lisa Leonard ...
Unless one has an incurable addiction to Richard Strauss' Ein Heldenleben, an inordinate admiration for Mariss Jansons, or a fanatical devotion to the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, it is difficult to get excited about this SACD. Granted, the work is one of the most colorful and entertaining of Strauss' symphonic poems, and Jansons and the RCO do ...
The Dvorák violin concerto was born of the same inspiration as Brahms' violin concerto: the great violin virtuoso Joseph Joachim. As with Brahms, Joachim assisted Dvorák greatly in the revision of his first attempt, yielding an extremely idiomatic, deeply lyrical contribution to the repertoire. Like his other concertos, the soloist and orchestra ...
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