Deutsche Grammophon's budget-priced, four-CD collection of all the works by György Ligeti in its catalog has many things to commend it, beginning with the title. Clear or Cloudy is a profoundly astute description of the composer's career, encompassing both the great sound clouds of his micropolyphonic work of the 1960s, such as Atmosphères, ...
Composer George Tsontakis possesses a singular ability to integrate themes, fragments, techniques, and aesthetics from across the history of Western art music, dabble in the jazz idiom, and tip his hat to some modern techniques. Though many composers have used models from the past to influence and drive their own compositions, Tsontakis does all ...
The Chamber Orchestra of Europe is an ensemble of top young musicians originally formed at the 1980 Salzburg Festival and successful enough that it turned into an ongoing enterprise. The group recorded often, with various mentors as conductors, and has been reissuing selected recordings on its Coe label after passing its 25th-anniversary milestone ...
For listeners to whom Beethoven means the heroic Beethoven of the Third Symphony or the humanist Beethoven of Fidelio or the transcendent Beethoven of the Missa Solemnis or the philosophic Beethoven of the late quartets, this 2006 disc by England's Gaudier Ensemble will come as a shock -- a pleasant shock but still a shock. Featuring three ...
Although he later took up the baton -- check out his terrific recordings of Beethoven's Second and Fifth with the Manchester Camerata -- the Scottish-born Douglas Boyd was once "just" an oboe player. Of course, saying Boyd was "just" an oboe player is like saying Sergey Koussevitzky was "just" a bass player. Way back in the '80s, Boyd was one of ...
One of the main reasons why historically informed performances have found favor with a wide audience is because of their extraordinary clarity: almost every note is audible and important details and secondary voices are heard pretty much as the composer intended. Yet the downside of such performances is just as often this clinical precision, which ...
Another Beethoven's Fifth? So what else is new?Well, actually, this Beethoven's Fifth is new. And, what's more, it's clear and strong and vital and persuasive. The Manchester Camerata is only a chamber orchestra, but the individual members play with the strength of ten because their tone is pure, their attacks are forceful, and their technique is ...
This four-disc set featuring Claudio Abbado and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe performing seven of Haydn's symphonies, an opera overture, and the Sinfonia concertante collects all Abbado's excellent Haydn recordings for Deutsche Grammophon and is also a sad reminder of how much was lost when that company didn't record more of the composer's work ...
Another recording of Erwin Stein's transcription of Gustav Mahler's Fourth Symphony for chamber orchestra? First there was Kenneth Slowik leading the Smithsonian Chamber Players and the Sante Fe Pro Musica on Dorian. Then there was Peter Stangel leading Die Taschenphilharmonie on Preiser. And now here is Douglas Boyd leading the Manchester ...
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