David Zinman's second venture in recording Gustav Mahler's symphonies for RCA Red Seal is a brisk and propulsive reading of the Symphony No. 2 in C minor, "Resurrection," one upon which he and the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra appear to have lavished all their energies and skills. This hybrid SACD package presents the massive work on two discs -- one ...
Even if one always has doubts about Simon Rattle conducting Mahler -- doubts about his sincerity and his seriousness -- even if one has always questioned his radically wrong tempos in the Second and Fourth and his amazingly uncomprehending interpretations of the Sixth and Seventh -- one has to admit that Rattle has over time gradually been getting ...
This set of the vocal works with orchestra by Charles Koechlin has everything going for it. First, with eight of the nine works being world-premiere recordings, most of the music here is terra incognita to even the most determined fan of the decadently voluptuous music of la belle epoch. Second, with aching chromatic melodies, yearning chromatic ...
The convention of a composer transcribing and even embroidering on the work of another composer is one of the oldest in western music. Parody masses, beginning at least as early as the fourteenth century, employed a popular melody, or the melody of another composer, as one of the lines in its polyphonic structure. Bach made arrangements of Vivaldi ...
We live in the silver age of lieder recording. In the golden age, we had Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau's recordings of every song for baritone ever written by pretty much every great song composer who ever lived. In the silver age, we have dozens of singers recording every song ever written by absolutely every great song composer who ever lived. In the ...
If, in the 20 years spent recording Mahler's 10 symphonies plus his symphonic song cycle Das Lied von der Erde and symphonic oratorio Das Klagende Lied, Simon Rattle was at first determined to deliver performances contradicting accepted standards and at the end equally determined to deliver performances conforming to accepted standards, he ...
As Graham Johnson nears the completion of his heroic task of recording all of the Schubert songs and ensembles with piano accompaniment, it is with joy, at hearing some lovely new gems, and sadness, that only one volume remains unissued, that we greet this new issue. The songs range from the excellent Der Kreuzzug to some rather forgettable songs ...
Although CPO's series of recordings of the complete songs of Brahms lacks the delightful liner notes of Hyperion's series of recordings of the complete songs of Schubert, CPO's series is otherwise Hyperion's equal in every way. First, of course, there is the music. Although Brahms' songs lack the vernal freshness of Schubert's songs, their ...
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