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2024-03-14 03:30:00
Recent Releases No. 72 (CD Reviews)
[…] 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 positive, and this one will continue the trend. Vänskä and his forces, With the expert support of the BIS engineering and production team, bring out the details of Mahler’s complex score With both clarity and power. The only other recording in my experience in the same league as this one is the Wit on Naxos; however, that one is split over two discs while Vänskä’s release is conveniently contained on one SACD, which has the additional advantages of including a not only an SACD stereo layer for those With SACD players who can take advantage of the higher resolution but also a multichannel layer for those With multichannel playback systems. (My listening was to the CD layer, which was certainly impressive enough.) For Mahler fans, this new […]
2024-03-11 03:30:00
Messiaen: Turangalîla Symphony (CD Review)
[…] (b. 1976), who is the Music Director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, leads his assembled forces in a performance that never goes over the top. There were times when I might have wished for a bit more emotion and excitement; on the other hand, I could also appreciate hearing everything laid out clearly before me. Same for the sonics, which are clean and unexaggerated. My personal favorite recording for both performance and sound is the Wit on Naxos, a 2-CD release which also features an exciting orchestral version of Messian’s L’ascension – but has the distinct disadvantage of spreading the symphony onto two discs (advantage: streaming). The Chung on DG is a delightful performance With so-so sonics. All things considered, this new release from Toronto is a safe bet for those wishing to explore Messiaen’s grand musical testament of love.
2024-03-07 07:39:00
Danza Gaya: Simon Callaghan & Hiroaki Takenouchi play With wonderful elan & relish, clearly having a great deal of fun
Danza gaya: music for two pianos - Madeleine Dring, Dorothy Howell, Pamela Harrison; Simon Callaghan, Hiroaki Takenouchi; LYRITAThree 20th-century English women composers, thirteen pieces all virtually unknown; Simon Callaghan & Hiroaki Takenouchi take us on an engagingly enjoyable explorationNone of the composers on pianists Simon Callaghan and Hiroaki Takenouchi's new disc are well enough known. Danza gaya on the Lyrita label features delightful music for two pianos by three women from 20th century English music, Madeleine Dring, Dorothy Howell and Pamela Harrison.We open With a group of pieces by Dring. Something of a child prodigy, Dring's time at the Royal College of Music would include lessons With Howells and Vaughan Williams, but her interests were wider and much of her working life was in theatre and cabaret. There is a lightness to a lot of her music that belies its fine craftsmanship and has, I think, rather mitigated against its appreciation. […]
2024-02-29 12:31:30
The Coliseum, LondonThere’s never a dull moment in Simon McBurney’s ingenious production, With Sarah Tynan and the ENO orchestra in fine fettle and a demented dalek-like Queen of the NightFor all Mozart’s musical genius, The Magic Flute can be a long and not especially funny night at the opera. That certainly isn’t the case With Simon McBurney’s 2013 production at the beleaguered English National Opera. Staged in collaboration With Complicité, and scrupulously revived by director Rachael Hewer, there’s a lifetime of Wit, wisdom and theatrical audacity distilled in this inventive peach of a show.Ditching the masonic mumbo-jumbo and gussying up the dialogue, McBurney has you laughing out loud. A dozen actors, their movement beautifully choreographed, bustle around Without ever pulling focus; singers inhabit the auditorium Without it feeling gratuitous. There’s aerial wizardry, tiny shadow puppets, some inventive and immaculately coordinated live video (Ben Thompson) and equally ingenious deployment of an […]
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