Recordings of Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D minor number in the hundreds, and there's little reason to get excited about yet another, unless it's a rendition by Franz Welser-Möst, a dynamic Austrian conductor who can be relied on to do something interesting with this masterpiece. Sure enough, this live version with the Cleveland ...
Due to its disastrous Viennese premiere in 1954, Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Symphony in F sharp was quickly dropped from the repertoire. Yet this late masterpiece, along with Korngold's opera Die tote Stadt, found receptive audiences in the 1970s and has become one of his best-known works. The old criticisms against Korngold's traditional tonality, ...
While by no means the deepest and most moving performance of Franz Schmidt's Fourth Symphony ever recorded, Franz Welser-Möst's 1994 recording with the London Philharmonic is likewise far from the shoddiest and most superficial performance ever recorded. Indeed, it falls exactly between those two extremes. For those not already familiar with the ...
Many of the great Bruckner recordings have been taken from live performances, and the legendary 1993 recording by Franz Welser-Möst and the London Philharmonic of the Symphony No. 5 in B flat major provides an excellent example. Of Bruckner's 11 symphonies, this is perhaps the most difficult to hold together because it poses several performance ...
Many of the great Bruckner recordings have been taken from live performances, and the legendary 1993 recording by Franz Welser-Möst and the London Philharmonic of the Symphony No. 5 in B flat major provides an excellent example. Of Bruckner's 11 symphonies, this is perhaps the most difficult to hold together because it poses several performance ...
Due to its disastrous Viennese premiere in 1954, Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Symphony in F sharp was quickly dropped from the repertoire. Yet this late masterpiece, along with Korngold's opera Die tote Stadt, found receptive audiences in the 1970s and has become one of his best-known works. The old criticisms against Korngold's traditional tonality, ...
Not half bad, but only half good, Franz Welser-Möst's recording of the Symphony No. 4 and the Hussar Variations of Franz Schmidt with the London Philharmonic is better than expected, but not as good as it could be. At its worst, Welser-Möst's Fourth is too fast, too light, and too maladroit -- the opening section's tempo should be Allegro molto ...
Shadows of Silence by Leif Ove Andsnes is a sensually beautiful recording of contemporary piano music mixing solo and concerted works. Andsnes' superb program illuminates what might be called the post-Impressionist strain of post-Modernist music. The two big works here, Witold Lutoslawski and Marc-André Dalbavie's virtuosic and visionary piano ...
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