Polish pianist Piotr Anderszewski first came to international attention in 1995 with his Philips' recording with violinist Viktoria Mullova of violin sonatas by Janácek, Debussy, and Prokofiev. The combination of Mullova's fire and passion with Anderszewski light and power was incandescent, and their 1997 follow-up disc of Brahms' violin sonatas ...
Rachel Barton Pine really may be the most charismatic, the most virtuosic, and the most compelling American violinist of her generation. Her recordings from Handel through Brahms have been sweet-toned, strong-willed, and deeply affecting and with this two-disc set called Scottish Fantasies, Barton has once again turned in a completely convincing ...
As Wolfgang Mozart wrote so much great music for low voice in his best-known operas -- consider what is present in Don Giovanni alone -- Deutsche Grammophon could have approached Bryn Terfel's entry into its Mozart Forever series as a no-brainer. Nevertheless, there is nothing cynical about Tutto Mozart!; Deutsche Grammophon gave considerable ...
Much of James MacMillan's orchestral music is concerned with matters of Christian theology, and his concerto for percussion and orchestra, Veni, Veni, Emmanuel, may be counted among his most religiously inspired pieces. Outwardly, though, it is ambiguous and difficult to distinguish from purely secular music. Since all of MacMillan's motives and ...
This 1990 recording was a Grammy winner and a consistent audience pleaser, which isn't a surprise: the combination of Telarc's snappy digital sound with the triumphant, all's-right-with-the-world mood of the Baroque and Classical trumpet concerto was a winning one. Smedvig is one of the world's great virtuosi on the trumpet, with a smooth sound ...
The great thing about Charles Mackerras' recordings of Brahms' orchestral works isn't that he uses the Scottish Chamber Orchestra instead of the standard-sized late Romantic orchestra. True, the smaller-sized ensemble does permit details of Brahms' scoring to sound more clean. And true, the smaller-sized ensemble does allow aspects of Brahms' ...
Coupled together for the first time, Janos Starker's 1987 and 1991 recordings of Haydn's Cello Concertos are welcome back into circulation in this new and improved form. Originally available on discs with recordings of Haydn's Symphonies also by Gerard Schwarz and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Starker's performances were always strong, sensitive ...
As superb as the playing of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra is in Charles Mackerras' recordings of Brahms' Third and Fourth symphonies -- as clean, as crisp, as colorful, as virtuosic -- one has to say that, in the final analysis, one wishes Mackerras had used the London Symphony or the Vienna Philharmonic or the Czech Philharmonic instead. As ...
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