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2023-12-18 05:30:00
KN's Favorite Recordings of 2023
by Karl NehringIn looking back over the releases that I reviewed during this past year, it strikes me that there were fewer of the symphonic works that I usually enjoy. I’m not sure whether that is the result of fewer symphony recordings being released or my lack of enthusiasm for reviewing yet another recording of Mahler or Bruckner (I dread 2024, Bruckner’s bicentennial year, which will no doubt herald no end of both rereleases and new recordings of his symphonies – of every edition and her sister by all manner of conductors and orchestras). Whatever the reason, my list of favorites strikes me as a bit unusual this year; however, there’s some darn good music to be found in this list of a dozen of my favorite recordings from 2023, which I present to you just in time for your last-minute holiday shopping. Beethoven: The Late Quartets. Calidore String Quartet. Signum Classics SIGCD733. It […]
2023-07-06 03:30:00
Recent Releases No. 54 (CD Reviews)
by Karl NehringGershwin: An American in Paris; Lullaby (version for string orchestra); Promenade (version for chamber orchestra); Cuban Overture; Catfish Row: Suite from Porgy and Bess. Leonard Slatkin, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. VOX-VV-3019CD Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36; Romeo and Juliet: Fantasy Overture after Shakespeare. Maurice Abravanel, Utah Symphony Orchestra. VOX-XX-3022-CD It’s exciting to see some more recordings from the Vox vaults being given new life thanks to the good folks at Naxos, who have begun digging out some of the old analog master tapes that had been recorded by Elite Recordings back in the 1970s and preparing new digital masters using state-of-the-art 192 kHz/24-bit technology. As the note on the back cover proclaims, “The Elite Recordings for Vox by legendary producers Marc Aubort and Joanna Nickrenz are considered by audiophiles to be amongst the finest sounding examples of orchestra recordings.” We have reviewed several of the previous Vox “Audiophile Edition” releases (Mozart piano concertos and a Rachmaninov symphony […]
2022-11-10 17:50:00
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2022-02-26 05:12:00
MUSE/IQUE Announces Yearlong “L.A. Composed: A Festival of Los Angeles Music”MUSE/IQUE continues its 2021-22 season, “L.A. Composed: A Festival of Los Angeles Music,” with an adventurous yearlong concert series that explores Los Angeles’ defining moments and artists who shaped the city’s legendary musical history. Curated and led by Founder and Artistic Director Rachael Worby, “L.A. Composed” features renowned musicians and dancers from stage and screen performing at cornerstone cultural institutions throughout the city, including Avalon Hollywood, Caltech, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, Skirball Cultural Center, and the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. “L.A. Composed” runs from March - November, 2022; tickets are on sale now.March 12, 2022, at 7:30 p.m.March 13, 2022, at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m.“Sunrise on Sunset” at The Wallis, featuring vocalists Brandon Victor Dixon, Kecia Lewis, and the DC 6 Singers.When it comes to the Los Angeles dream, all roads lead […]