Antonin Dvorák: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 6
Posted in Classical, Symphonies on Mar 23rd, 2013
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Gustavo Dudamel: Discoveries
Posted in Classical, Orchestral Music, Symphonies on Mar 23rd, 2013
“To give listeners a clear idea of this critically acclaimed conductor’s range and versatility, short pieces and movements from larger works have been selected from seven CDs to highlight his repertoire on Discoveries… Conducting the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic, and the Vienna Philharmonic, he shows his [...]
Jean Sibelius: Complete Symphonies, Tone Poems
Posted in Classical, Orchestral Music, Symphonies on Feb 27th, 2013
“Recorded between 1975 and 1979 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and grouped here with the Violin Concerto and various famous tone poems, such as Finlandia, The Swan of Tuonela, and Tapiola, Davis’ set is still a viable contender against other packages on the market, and listeners who want lucid interpretations will be hard pressed to [...]
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-4
Posted in Classical, Symphonies on Sep 19th, 2012
“[Paavo Berglund] made everything he did sound like Shakespeare, whether it was Beethoven, Brahms, Smetana, or Rachmaninov. But it was the conducting of Sibelius that he revolutionized…. The sound of his Sibelius is hard but not hard-edged; it’s all forest murmurs and oscillating universes. In his hands, the symphonies don’t develop, in the usual Western-music [...]
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 5-7: The oceanides; Finlandia; Tapiola
Posted in Classical, Symphonies on Sep 19th, 2012
“[Paavo Berglund] recorded the complete symphonies three times; the middle set, done between 1984 and 1987 with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, makes for an inexpensive and readily available introduction…. Symphony No. 5 is a particular treat; Sibelius had swans in mind, and Berglund’s just keep getting whiter and whiter. As for ‘Tapiola,’ it’s a conversation [...]
Shostakovich: Symphones Nos. 2 and 15
Posted in Classical, Symphonies on Sep 13th, 2012
“There’s a lot to like in this recording of Shostakovich’s Second and Fifteenth symphonies with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra led by their young conductor, Vasily Petrenko. …This album is part of a complete cycle of Shostakovich’s symphonies, and…you may well be intrigued enough to check out other releases in the series.” –All [...]
Arvo Pärt: Symphony No. 4
Posted in Classical, Symphonies on May 13th, 2011
“Arvo Pärt has demonstrated a voracious musical curiosity and daring experimental spirit throughout his career that has allowed him to move beyond his secured place as Estonia’s premiere composer to become perhaps the best-known choral and sacred music scorist of his time.” –All Music Guide Check Our Catalog
Karol Szymanowski: Song of the Night
Posted in Classical, Concertos, Symphonies on May 5th, 2011
“Szymanowski’s unique brand of expressive, lyric modernism has found many admirers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Though his earliest music is perhaps too closely allied to that of his childhood idol Chopin to fully stand on its own, his later work synthesizes the stylistic characteristics of a wide range of composers into a highly [...]
Gustav Mahler: The Complete Symphonies
Posted in Symphonies on May 6th, 2010
Check Our Catalog “Few can deny Bernstein’s lasting importance in promoting Mahler’s cause, for in the 1960s and early ’70s there was only a handful of conductors of comparable magnitude who specialized in this music, and his work…certainly caught the attention of the world.” –All Music Guide
Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 5
Posted in Classical, Symphonies on Oct 27th, 2009
Check Our Catalog “This 2009 release of Anton Bruckner’s “Symphony No. 5 in B flat major”…delivers a remarkably clear and cogent reading of Bruckner’s most skillfully wrought symphony, along with a moving account of how Zander came to conduct this work so late in his career. Zander’s grasp of the music is secure throughout, and [...]
Simon Rattle & Berliner Philharmoniker: Mahler’s 9th Symphony
Posted in Classical, Symphonies on May 15th, 2009
Check Our Catalog “It works its magic on a deep emotional level: with the unsurpassed Berlin strings surging through the rich, plangent harmonies of the final Adagio, it is the kind of music-making that leaves you feeling drained, even distraught by the end – as it should.”–Daily Telegraph
Vaughan Williams: The Collector’s Edition
Posted in Chamber, Classical, Orchestral Music, Symphonies, Vocal on Dec 15th, 2008
Check Our Catalog Celebrated as the musical poet of the English landscape, Vaughan Williams was also a visionary composer of enormous range: from the pastoral lyricism of The Lark Ascending and the still melancholy of Silent Noon to the chilly grandeur of the Sinfonia Antartica and the noisy ceremonial of All people that on earth [...]
Taneyev: Symphonies No. 1 and 3
Posted in Classical, Symphonies on Oct 20th, 2008
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George Enescu: Orchestral Works
Posted in Classical, Symphonies on Oct 20th, 2008
Check Our Catalog Georges Enescu (1881-1955) was an extraordinary musician–one of the great violin virtuosi of the twentieth century, whose performing prowess was eventually overshadowed by his compositional talent. He is the most famous Romanian composer of all time. At the beginning of World War I, after two years of work, Enescu finished his Second [...]
The Best of Britten
Posted in Choral, Classical, Symphonies on Oct 20th, 2008
Check Our Catalog The outstanding English composer working in the mid-20th century, Benjamin Britten won a significant international reputation, whilst remaining thoroughly English in inspiration. Britten’s compositions appeal to all ages, from the delightful “Simple Symphony”, composed for a school orchestra, and “The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra” written for an educational film, to [...]
Mahler: Symphony No. 5
Posted in Classical, Symphonies on Oct 17th, 2008
Check Our Catalog Gustavo Dudamel presents his highly anticipated second album. Again with the forces of the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, the disc features another symphonic masterpiece – Mahler’s captivating Symphony No. 5. With its energetic outbursts, expressive cantilenas and constant changes of mood, Mahler’s Symphony no. 5 is the ideal repertoire for [...]