When people think of the conductor Eugen Jochum they think first of his Bruckner and of the vast melodies, the enormous harmonies, the endless sequences, the eternal tempos, and the infinite lengths of his interpretations of that late nineteenth century Austrian peasant mystic's symphonies. Jochum's two complete cycles of Bruckner's symphonies -- ...
Among top-tier classical composers, Franz Schubert may well have left the most impressive showing in terms of sheer productivity within his rather limited range of time; though active only about 18 years, Schubert produced some 1,100 works -- one does not know when he must have slept; perhaps he didn't. In the budget category, Decca has produced ...
Judged on its clarity of detail and faithfulness to the score, this recording of Mahler's majestic Symphony No. 8 ranks as one of the most exacting and authoritative ever made. Yet there are less tangible aspects to which the excellence of this performance must be attributed. Riccardo Chailly paces this symphony in long, confident strides, neither ...
Originally released in 1966, Bernard Haitink's vivid recording of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 3 in D minor is coupled here with a 1973 performance of Das klagende Lied; since these are among the least performed and least familiar works in Mahler's catalog, the pairing is mutually beneficial to each, and listeners who have neither in their ...
Unlike Westerners working with Catholic and Protestant texts, Russian composers setting Orthodox liturgy have had only an intermittent series of inspirations to draw on. Rachmaninov, with his Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom of 1910, was preceded by Tchaikovsky and a few other composers in setting this text, but the idea of an orchestral, ...
Not bad as far as it goes, Mark Wigglesworth and the Netherlands Radio Choir and Philharmonic Orchestra's performance of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 13 goes nowhere near far enough. There's plenty of power in the playing -- listen to the walloping attack of the tympani, the blistering tone of the brass, and the searing strength of the strings -- ...
Ingenuity and facility are the boon and bane of Michael Torke's talents, and both are intertwined in the works covered on this 2004 box set from Ecstatic Records. For all his brilliant orchestration, original formal concepts, and occasionally daring uses of styles, there seem to be opposing qualities of commercial slickness, clever game-playing, ...
A masterpiece of nineteenth century sacred music, the Stabat Mater is a complex, multi-faceted work, a composition in which Rossini's melodic gift and dramatic genius truly shine. Only an exceptionally subtle performance can do justice to this work, and this performance of Riccardo Chailly conducting the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra successfully ...
Rhythmically propelled, pungent with distinctive woodwind timbres, and overflowing with bright, pan-diatonic harmonies, Michael Torke's music tends toward neo-Classicism, and resembles Stravinsky's music in many ways, though it also seems strongly influenced by the minimalism of Steve Reich and Michael Nyman. The setting of texts in irregular ...
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