In their performance of Brahms' Violin Concerto, violinist Gil Shaham and conductor Claudio Abbado have created one of the warmest and most lyrical recordings of the piece in years, if not decades. Without sentimentality or self-indulgence, they have wrapped Brahms' late-summer concerto in waves of rapturous sound, singing a hymn to ineffable ...
The genius of Georg Philipp Telemann is so overwhelming in its prolificacy that one is tempted not to bother with him -- where does one start? Nevertheless, new recordings of Telemann, many in pieces never before heard, are coming out at such a rate that the listener cannot be blamed for thinking that the composer might still be alive somewhere, ...
Medieval Baebes and other far greater shocks to the bourgeoisie have come along. Wild adventures placed under the rubric of performances of Vivaldi's Four Seasons are commonplace. Yet Nigel Kennedy continues to roost atop the classical sales charts in Europe, and even to command a decent following in the U.S. despite a low American tolerance for ...
New Seasons is a project undertaken by oboist Albrecht Mayer to create "new" concertos for oboe, based primarily on the operas and oratorios of George Frideric Handel. He and arranger Andreas N. Tarkmann used arias, sometimes including bits of recitative, and gave the vocal lines to the oboe, flute, and bassoon without changing too much of the ...
Sooner or later, if you're a German baritone with aspirations of grandeur, you've got to take a shot at Bach's two great baritone cantatas, the gloomy Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen (BWV 56) and the doomy Ich habe genug (BWV 82). Thus it was inevitable that Thomas Quasthoff, arguably the best German baritone of the past ten years, would have ...
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