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2024-01-11 04:30:00
Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 (CD Review)
[…] the Wagner operas including the famous cascading strings from the Tannhäuser Overture.” You can also find some information about versions of the work in this YouTube video by music critic David Hurwitz, who favors the 1877 version.What we have here is a recording of the original 1873 version. If you watch the Hurwitz video, you will discover that although he finds the 1877 version to be his favorite, he has good things to say about Georg Tintner’s Naxos CD of this same 1873 version, which Tinter recorded with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in 1998 and Naxos released early in 2000. Now we have a fresh new recording by the Gürzenich Orchestra of Cologne, Germany, under the direction of French conductor François-Xavier Roth (b. 1971), who is perhaps most familiar to classical music listeners from his many recordings with Les Siècles, the period-instrument orchestra that he founded. However, Roth has conducted […]
2021-11-08 05:16:00
Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 “Romantic” (CD review)
[…] tend to stand out, which only serves to make the grandeur of the alternating passages the more problematic.The real question with any popular piece of classical music, of course, is whether a new recording of it is worth investigating, given the number of great performances already available. For instance, we already have fine performances by Otto Klemperer (EMI), Karl Bohm (Decca), Eugen Jochum (DG and EMI), Gunther Wand (RCA), Herbert von Karajan (DG), and Georg Tintner (Naxos), among many others. So, does Thielemann compete? Well, of course, he competes. It’s just that if one does not own any or all of the aforementioned recordings, they should be given preferential consideration. Otherwise, fans of Thielemann will not be unhappy with his recording.On an aside, the booklet notes I received were rather jumbled, with pages either missing or printed in the wrong order. No biggie, but a minor annoyance.Producer Arend Prohmann and […]
2021-11-08 05:16:00
Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 “Romantic” (CD review)
[…] tend to stand out, which only serves to make the grandeur of the alternating passages the more problematic.The real question with any popular piece of classical music, of course, is whether a new recording of it is worth investigating, given the number of great performances already available. For instance, we already have fine performances by Otto Klemperer (EMI), Karl Bohm (Decca), Eugen Jochum (DG and EMI), Gunther Wand (RCA), Herbert von Karajan (DG), and Georg Tintner (Naxos), among many others. So, does Thielemann compete? Well, of course, he competes. It’s just that if one does not own any or all of the aforementioned recordings, they should be given preferential consideration. Otherwise, fans of Thielemann will not be unhappy with his recording.On an aside, the booklet notes I received were rather jumbled, with pages either missing or printed in the wrong order. No biggie, but a minor annoyance.Producer Arend Prohmann and […]
2021-06-08 00:00:00
Roger Woodward - A Concerto Collection
Roger Woodward - piano. A Concerto Collection. Vol.I1.01. - 1.03. Johann Sebastian Bach - Concerto in D minor for Keyboard and Strings, BWV,1052 [22'11]with Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Eivind Aadland [2012 live]1.04. - 1.06. Joseph Haydn - Concerto for Violin and Organ in F major, Hob.XVIII:6 * [19'43]Roger Woodward- chamber organ and Wanda Wilkomirska- violin, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Niklaus Wyss [1982 live]2.07. - 2.09. Frederic Chopin - Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, op.11 [40'31]with Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Werner Andreas Albert [1982]3.10. - 3.12. Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, op.58 [33'36]with Queensland Theatre Orchestra, George Tintner [1982 live]3.13. - 3.15. Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, op.37 [34'42]with West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Albert Rosen [1982 live]4.16. - 4.18. Sergei Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, op.26 [28'25]4.19. - 4.21. Alexander Scriabin - Piano Concerto in F-sharp minor, […]
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