For a change of pace, how about a great recording of Beethoven's C minor Piano Concerto? Instead of the standard rehash of Beethoven's C minor Concerto, how about a recording of thrilling virtuosity, exciting drama, exquisite lyricism, and, above all, relentless drive? Is it even possible? Despite fine recordings of the work over the years -- one ...
Of course this is what Beethoven is supposed to sound like. All the warmth, the breadth, the depth, the height, the solemnity, the hilarity, the agony, and, of course, the wild-eyed ecstasy that are in Beethoven in these performances of his complete Overtures by David Zinman leading the Tonhalle Orchestre Zurich. As Zinman proved in his cycle of ...
Of course you've got to hear them. These are performances of the first new editions of Beethoven's Seventh and Eighth symphonies in more than a century. With immense rigor and enormous love, Jonathan del Mar has given musicians and music lovers an edition of the core works of the symphonic repertoire that is shockingly strange and strangely ...
There are four types of Schumann conductors. There are those terrible Schumann conductors who make Schumann sound like he had no idea how to write a symphony and less than no idea how to orchestrate. Then there are those mediocre Schumann conductors who make Schumann sound like he had some idea what he was doing but still very little idea of how ...
While Robert Schumann's symphonies are undeniable masterpieces full of inventive musical development and striking innovations in form, their most persistent difficulty lies in their orchestration: Schumann's over-reliance on doublings of the strings and woodwinds often results in a gray and lackluster sound. Credit David Zinman for finding a way ...
Like many contemporary recordings of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 1 in D major, "Titan," this hybrid SACD from RCA includes a performance of the full symphony with the discarded movement "Blumine." It has become fashionable for conductors to insert this brief pastoral piece as a quiet interlude between the first and second movements, even though ...
A very light but very lovely disc of mid-twentieth century violin concertos, this 1996 recording by Joshua Bell with David Zinman directing the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra coupling the concertos of Samuel Barber and William Walton along with Baal Shem, the concerto-in-all-but-in-name by Ernest Bloch, may be for younger listeners a first choice ...
Bright, stylish, and lovely, Pamela Frank's recordings of Mozart's five Violin Concertos with David Zinman conducting the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra are surely among the best since Arthur Grumiaux's classic recordings with Colin Davis and the London Symphony of half a century ago. Frank's tone is lean but supple, her intonation is warm but pure, ...
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