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One Movement Symphonies (CD review)
[…] the music is sensual and provocative and should be played and enjoyed with passion. Stern’s way with it isn’t exactly in the heady realms of a Stokowski, Svetlanov, Gergiev, Muti, Abbado, or Mitropoulos, but it comes close enough. Stern appears to go for a beauty in the work beyond its mysticism, making it all the more enchanting, even beguiling for the listener.Producer David Frost and engineer Keith O. Johnson recorded the symphonies at Helzberg Hall, Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, Kansas City, Missouri in June 2016. This is a classic Reference Recordings production, meaning it sounds the way Reference Recordings discs have sounded since their founding back in 1976 and the way we’ve always loved them. The sound is dynamic, dimensional, wide ranging, and real. That last is particularly important. Reference Recordings have never tried to sound “audiophile,” just lifelike, and in the process the company has, perhaps ironically, […]
2019-11-04 05:41:00
Holst: The Planets (SACD review)
[…] doesn't happen. It all seems of a piece and ends naturally, not gimmicky. Accompanying The Planets Maestro Stern gives us Holst's introductory ballet music from the composer's 1923 one-act opera The Perfect Fool. Holst intended for the opera to be a humorous fairy tale, and Maestro Stern plays it that way, light and airy, witty and delightful. Producer David Frost and engineers Keith O. Johnson and Sean Royce Martin recorded the music at Helzberg Hall, Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, Kansas City, Missouri in January 2015. They recorded it using 24-bit HDCD technology in hybrid Super Audio CD, so it will play back in 2-channel stereo and 5.1 multichannel from the SACD layer and 2-channel stereo from the regular CD layer. As usual, I listened in 2-channel SACD. Reference Recordings have gotten us into audiophile territory again so expect an enormous dynamic range. There will be a temptation to […]
2018-02-22 00:43:00
Harriman-Jewell Series: Kathleen Battle in 'Underground Railroad' at Kauffman Center, Friday, March 2 at 7:30 PM, Kansas City, Missouri
Kathleen Battle Harriman-Jewell Series KATHLEEN BATTLE soprano with choir and pianoUnderground Railroad—A Spiritual Journey Friday, March 2 7 p.m. Helzberg Hall, Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway Blvd., Kansas City MO Soprano Kathleen Battle, one of the great divas of our time, was previously presented by the Harriman-Jewell Series in 1989, 1990, and 1999. For her long-awaited return to the Series, Battle will be joined by 29 singers she selected as her choir and pianist Joel A. Martin for a moving program of traditional spirituals, with narration drawn from the writings of Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass. Kathleen Battle also […]
2017-03-31 08:55:07
Lyric Opera of Kansas City concludes its 59th season with Gilbert & Sullivan's delightful comic operetta The Pirates of Penzance April 22, 26, 28, 29, and 30 at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. The production will be sung in English with English titles.
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