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2021-12-28 21:43:29
These recordings are stunning, plain and simple. There isn’t a single performance in this set that could not serve as a reference version for the repertoire in question (OK, maybe the Weber Clarinet Concertos with Benny Goodman…). Some of been reissued already, and are well-known: most of the Ravel pieces, the Hindemith Nobilissima Visione Suite, […]
2021-12-27 07:00:53
1963 Telecast: Hindemith Leads the CSO in Music of Hindemith, Bruckner, Brahms
In 1963, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra was in transition. The French conductor, Jean Martinon, was beginning his five-year tenure as music director following the death of the legendary Fritz Reiner. Over the preceding ten years, the fierce and autocratic Reiner had turned the CSO into what Igor Stravinsky called, “the most precise and flexible orchestra in the world.” We hear the ensemble Reiner built in all of its glory in this April 7, ...
2021-11-09 00:35:00
Decca Eloquence 5 plus Rossini and Xenakis
[…] de Larrocha download Sergei Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2 Symphonic Dances Alicia de Larrocha Charles Dutoit download Hector Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique Felix Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night´s Dream Pierre Monteux download Richard Wagner Der Fliegende Holländer Josef Metternich Annelies Kupper Wolfgang Windgassen Ferenc Fricsay download Sergei Prokofiev Peter and the Wolf Symphonies Nos. 5 and 7 Russian Overture Lieutenant Kijé The Love for Three Oranges Jean Martinon Sir Adrian Boult download Antonin Dvorak Symphony No. 7 Edward Elgar Enigma Variations London Symphony Orchestra Pierre Monteux download A. Vivaldi The Four Seasons J. S. Bach Concerto for Two Violins W. A. Mozart Itzhak Perlman violin Isaac Stern violin Pinchas Zukerman viola Zubin Mehta download Claude Debussy Solo Piano Music Gordon fergus-Thompson download Violin Encores by Tchaikovsky Ponce - Korngold - […]
2021-09-19 05:52:35
This is one terrific album! Put aside your expectations of how Ravel’s music should sound based on prior experience of it as played by world-class orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic (Boulez), Concertgebouw (Haitink), Boston Symphony (Ozawa), London Symphony (Abbado), or Montreal Symphony (Dutoit). Only the French National under Martinon offers a unique and distinctive […]
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