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2023-12-31 00:00:00
Picking up where we left off, here’s the best of the best of this year’s most outstanding albums. If you haven’t already, do. 15 | Tim Hecker – Infinity Pool (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) One of the year’s most discomfiting movies (Branden Cronenberg’s best to date) requires nothing less than… The post appeared first on 5:4. 5:4 is on Patreon! Please consider supporting the blog by becoming a Patron from just $2 a month: https://www.patreon.com/5against4
2021-11-08 05:16:00
Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 “Romantic” (CD review)
[…] 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 engineer Peter Hecker made the recording at the Salzburg Festival, Grosses Festpielhaus, in August 2020. The music opens very softly and at a normal output setting one hears an odd background buzz or hum. It disappears as soon as the music’s volume increases, but still.... From this point things proceed to sound like a typical modern recording, albeit with an extraordinarily wide dynamic range. Otherwise, it is pleasantly ambient, the orchestra magnificent as always, appearing rich and […]
2021-11-08 05:16:00
Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 “Romantic” (CD review)
[…] 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 engineer Peter Hecker made the recording at the Salzburg Festival, Grosses Festpielhaus, in August 2020. The music opens very softly and at a normal output setting one hears an odd background buzz or hum. It disappears as soon as the music’s volume increases, but still.... From this point things proceed to sound like a typical modern recording, albeit with an extraordinarily wide dynamic range. Otherwise, it is pleasantly ambient, the orchestra magnificent as always, appearing rich and […]
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2020-01-10 14:41:00
Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor – Martin Helmchen, hr-Sinfonieorchester, Klaus Mäkelä (HD 1080p)
[…] von Dohnányi.He also enjoys collaborations with conductors such as David Afkham, Marc Albrecht, Sir Mark Elder, Edward Gardner, Philippe Herreweghe, Manfred Honeck, Paavo Järvi, Emmanuel Krivine, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Christoph Poppen, Michael Sanderling and David Zinman.His quest for exploring all facets of music-making is born in his passion for chamber music – which was largely ignited in early collaborations with the late cellist Boris Pergamenschikow. Helmchen's chamber music partners have included Juliane Banse, Matthias Goerne, Veronika Eberle, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, Christian Tetzlaff, Antje Weithaas, Carolin Widmann and Frank Peter Zimmermann. He is a regular guest to London's Wigmore Hall.Scandinavia is a focus of his 2018-2019 season, which includes his debut with Oslo Philharmonic, plus returns to the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Elsewhere, he debuts with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai / Italy and the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg. Helmchen continues his close […]
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