The chief complaint about PentaTone's "RQR" line remains that there is absolutely no mention of any of the performers in the liner notes, despite presenting highly acclaimed soloists like pianist Misha Dichter, world-renowned conductors like Kurt Masur, and world-class orchestras like the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. The performers deserve as ...
Vivid and viscerally exciting, Kurt Masur's performances with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra of Franz Liszt's symphonic poems may be considered streamlined modern interpretations -- lean and propulsive, with only a nod here and there to sentimentality and lushness. Listeners may respond positively to Masur's brisk, no-nonsense tempi, and the ...
Berlin Classics, in an apparent effort to streamline packaging of albums, has elected on this recording of the Chopin piano concertos to completely do away with any liner notes at all. While an orchestra like the Gewandhausorcher and a conductor like Kurt Masur may have reputations that precede them, pianists like Annerose Schmidt may need a ...
So far, Kurt Masur has recorded Beethoven's Fifth three times: first with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig in 1972, again with the Gewandhaus in 1987, and then with the New York Philharmonic in 1992. None of the performances are particularly good: the 1972 Gewandhaus is stolid, the 1987 Gewandhaus is stodgy, and the 1992 is simply dull. With ...
Despite the large shadow cast by Dvorák over Czech orchestral music of the nineteenth-century, one could argue that Bedrich Smetana's Ma Vlast (My Country) is the quintessential patriotic warhorse of that subgenre. Although of its movements only "The Moldau" has gained traction as a repertory standard, the work as a whole seems to stand for what ...
It doesn't matter which Beethoven symphony he's conducting, Kurt Masur is a one-size-fits-all interpreter. It could be the Olympian Fourth or the Dionysic Seventh, but Masur invariably makes it sound middle-of-the-road massive and more or less monumental. In the graceful Fourth, Masur leads the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig in a performance of ...
More determined than doughty, Kurt Masur's 1973 recording of Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig is more than acceptable but less than endorsable. More slapstick than subtle, Masur's 1974 recording of Beethoven's Eighth Symphony with the same orchestra is more than tolerable but less than enjoyable. Philips released ...
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