In no piece is the competition very wide because there never have been many recordings of the Der Bürger als Edelmann, the Duetto-Concertino, or even the Sextet from the Capriccio by Richard Strauss. But in every piece, the competition is as good as it gets with Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony on one Der Bürger and Herbert von Karajan and ...
Supple and muscular, but perhaps too sinewy and sometimes even a bit stiff, Heinrich Schiff and Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie's performances of Beethoven's Second and Third symphonies come close to greatness, but ultimately fall short. Schiff, himself a supple and muscular cellist, has become an accomplished conductor, and he clearly knows how to ...
Paulus, Mendelssohn's two-hour oratorio, is rarely performed today, but during his lifetime it was his most popular work. Elijah is a richer and more musically mature work, and it has a more inherently dramatic story, so it's not surprising that it has eclipsed Paulus' popularity. Paulus demonstrates Mendelssohn admiration for the Passions of Bach ...
Clearly a man of the early twentieth century born 100 years too late, Antony Beaumont has edited the letters of Gustav Mahler and the diaries of Alma Mahler, written important monographs on the music of Ferruccio Busoni, and conducted and recorded the complete orchestral works of Alexander von Zemlinsky with the Czech Philharmonic. With the ...
With the large selection of recordings on the market for both the Haydn and Hummel trumpet concertos, the browser might be forgiven for wondering whether British trumpeter Alison Balsom's no-neckline look might be the chief attraction here. It's not the case, and Balsom crafts a distinctive interpretation of these familiar works within the ...
With performances this strong, subtle, and vital, there are only two negative charges that can be made against this disc by Paavo Järvi and the Deutsches Kammerphilharmonie Bremen coupling Beethoven's First and Fifth symphonies: why does the sound have so much echo and why does the Fifth Symphony come before the First? Using Bärenreiter's New ...
After making his recording debut with the Diabelli Variations in 2000, young Polish pianist Piotr Anderszewski continued to show an affinity for Beethoven. He briefly returned to the German master's music in a 2004 disc coupling Webern's Variations and Bach's English Suite in D minor, BWV 811, with Beethoven's A flat major Sonata, Op. 110. But ...
This Berlin Classics disc was a surprise in its day, and it remains fresh in this 2008 reissue. When first released in early 1995, some listeners did not know at first what to make of performances of Beethoven's Second and Third symphonies directed by a cellist and played by a chamber orchestra. At the time Heinrich Schiff was well-known as one of ...
These are challenging performances of Beethoven's Fourth and Seventh symphonies. They are challenging partly because they use the Neue Urtext Edition from Bärenreiter for both works, thereby altering hundreds of details of phrasing and articulation from all earlier editions. And part of it is that the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie is a chamber-sized ...
The relationship between Joseph Haydn and Anton Kraft caused a great deal of speculation and uncertainty, particularly in the cello community. Kraft was a very successful and highly talented cellist who, as was customary at the time, frequently composed to demonstrate his own talents. In an effort to improve his compositional abilities, Kraft ...
Carus-Verlag's excellent Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Herr Gott, dich loben wir makes its bow in 2009, the bicentenary of Mendelssohn's birth. Even a reasonably casual classical music listener might be surprised to learn just how much Mendelssohn they might have gained without really trying, as his symphonic works, the most popular pieces among ...
Even Mendelssohn's admirers might be confused by the identity of the composer of these sacred choral works. There are hints of Bach's triumphalism in the opening Magnificat and more than hints of Handel's imperialism in the closing Gloria. Careful listening, though, will reveal the composer's true identity in the expressive elegance of the solo ...
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