Minnesota Orchestra News
symphonic orchestra based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- Symphonic orchestra
- Minneapolis
- United States of America
streaming
Last update
2024-03-28
Refresh
2024-03-18 03:30:00
Ravel Orchestral Works (CD Review)
by Karl Nehring Valses nobles et sentimentales; Ma mère l’Oye (Complete Ballet); Daphnis et Chloé, Suites Nos. 1 and 2; L’Éventail de Jeanne: Fanfare. St. Olaf Choir; Minnesota Orchestra; Stanisław Skrowaczewski, conductor. VOX-NX-3037CD Many classical music lovers of a certain age are no doubt familiar with Vox, a budget label that produced some real gems that provided the music lover on a budget an excellent way to expand their classical LP collections at a reasonable price. I can offer a quick example from my own experience: I’ll never forget a day back in the mid-1970s when I was strolling through a Sears department store one afternoon and came across an aisle display that featured the newly released 4-LP Vox Box of Ravel’s orchestral music featuring Stanislaw Skrowaczewski conducting the Minnesota Orchestra. I was back in college on the G.I. Bill after serving 4½ years in the Army, with a wife, two kids, a pair of […]
2024-03-14 03:30:00
Recent Releases No. 72 (CD Reviews)
by Karl Nehring Mahler: Symphony No. 8. Carolyn Sampson/Jacquelyn Wagner, sopranos; Sasha Cooke/Jess Dandy, altos; Barry Banks, tenor; Julian Orishausen, baritone; Christian Immler, bass; Minnesota Chorale; National Lutheran Choir; Minnesota Boychoir; Angelica Cantanti Youth Choir; Minnesota Symphony; Osmo Vänskä, conductor. BIS-2496 SACD This recording of Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, a work for which to provoke public interest the organizer of the first public performances, an impresario named Emil Gutman dubbed “Symphony of a Thousand,” was made at the occasion of the final concert in the 19-year tenure of Finnish conductor Osmo Vänskä (b. 1953) as music director of the Minnesota Orchestra. He is now music director laureate, with Danish conductor Thomas Søndergård (b. 1969) succeeding him as music director. At Minnesota, Vänskä has recorded for BIS all of Mahler’s numbered symphonies except for No. 3; the following links will direct you to our reviews of Symphony No.1, Symphony No. 7, and Symphony No. 10. Those reviews were all […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-29 19:16:31
NEP Piques Our Interest
New England Philharmonic’s “New Music New England” [tickets HERE] celebrates our region and features Grammy-winning organ soloist Paul Jacobs Boston on Sunday March 3rd at 3:00 pm at the Boston University Tsai Performance Center. In a concert which also includes, Wang Lu’s Surge (2022), Ives’s Three Places in New England (1935), David Sanford’s Thy Book of Toil (2014), a pair of works by composers we know, Kati Agócs and John Harbison, particularly piqued our interest. John Harbison’s What Do We Make of Bach? for orchestra with organ obligatto premiered in October 2018 with the Minnesota Orchestra, conductor Osmo Vänskä, and organist Paul Jacobs, organist. Agócs summarizes her Perpetual Summer (2010) for BMInt readers below, and our interviews with Perpetual Summer with Harbison and Jacobs follow. [caption id="attachment_27163" align="alignleft" width="232"] Kati Agócs (Samantha West photo)[/caption] “Perpetual Summer is scored for large orchestra. Elegiac, even apocalyptic in tone, the work represents my reaction […]
2023-11-30 15:00:52
Minnesota Chorale/Minnesota O/Vänskä(BIS)There’s a lingering sense of unevenness in this recording of Osmo Vänskä’s final concert as the Minnesota Orchestra’s music directorOsmo Vänskä and the Minnesota Orchestra began their
or
- Symphonic orchestras (North America).
- Indexes (by alphabetical order): M...