It's no Alexander Nevsky, but Prokofiev's Ivan the Terrible still puts on one heck of a show. Both works were originally conceived and executed as film scores, but while Nevsky has the advantage of having been turned into a cantata by the composer himself, Ivan was turned into an oratorio after the composer's death by Abram Stasevich. So while the ...
Let's raise a glass of Chateaux-Neuf-du-Pape to Erato, once one of the great French classical labels that exists only in reissues. In its prime, Erato had many of the finest French performers, from Monique Haas to Pierre Boulez, on its roster. At its peak in the digital era, it had even signed the Argentinean Daniel Barenboim and the Chicago ...
There has always been a need for more recordings of the orchestral music Richard Strauss extracted from his operas. While The Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome and the Waltzes from Der Rosenkavalier have always titillated and captivated audiences, there is a lot more music where they came from and there have always been relatively too few ...
Judged in its time as a straightforward coupling of Rachmaninov's very popular Second Symphony with Rimsky-Korsakov's extremely popular Capriccio Espagnol, this 1976 recording with Edo de Waart leading the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra gets a whole new lease on life in this superlative PentaTone super audio CD. Though issued in stereo on LP, ...
Although performed and recorded relatively infrequently, Prokofiev's Sinfonia Concertante for cello and orchestra is an undisputed masterpiece, and this 2009 recording features a magisterial performance by Pieter Wispelwey. The Dutch cellist's broad tone, muscular technique, and intense expressivity ideally suit the work. Few readings of the ...
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