Recordings

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These 1988 concert performances of Schubert’s Symphonies are given excellent analogue recordings by Austrian Radio, providing a consistently rich sound.  Perhaps Nos 1 & 4 have a touch more ‘presence’...
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The clearly recorded broadcast of Maskarade wears its years very well indeed.  Light in bass perhaps but there is the essential vocal clarity – necessary because the printed aid to...
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Given his reputation as a fearless radical, uncompromising in his pursuit of rethinking the language and structure of music, one does not readily associate Michael Finnissy (born 1946) with music written for...
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“What is music? How can one define it? Music is a calm moonlit night, a rustling of summer foliage. Music is the distant peal of bells at eventide! Music is...
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Barry Douglas's Chandos Schubert cycle is one of the unmitigated triumphs of recent years. I remember welcoming Volume III with a review that could have occupied a chapter but in...
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Back in 2012, towards the end of his Frankfurt RSO tenure, Paavo Järvi showed his broader Tchaikovsky hand with a particularly appealing account of the vernal First Symphony. Combining Germanic...
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It is an interesting coincidence that other well-known conductors who were also composers were so closely contemporary with Launy Grøndahl (1886-1960). Furtwängler was also born in 1886 and Klemperer in...
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It may have started out as a centenary tribute to the Society for Private Musical Performances over which Schoenberg presided during 1918-22, but the Alban Berg Ensemble Wien has now...
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“You [in Geneva] are in the best possible position to write great things: take advantage of the fact. Travel around Switzerland and Italy on foot, that is the only way...
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Mahler’s Third symphony was not heard in England until half a century after its composition when it was broadcast by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Adrian Boult on...
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