Decca has been releasing cycles of the symphonies of Sibelius about once a decade since the introduction of the long playing record. In the '50s, there was the stern-faced Anthony Collins with the lean London Symphony Orchestra. In the '60s, there was the baby-faced Lorin Maazel with the lush Vienna Philharmonic. In the '80s, there was the craggy ...
Even though the revival of Carl Nielsen's music in the late '60s proved to be nearly as revelatory as the slightly earlier promotion of Gustav Mahler's symphonies, the pace of recordings at the time was quite sluggish. Indeed, by the early 1970s, the discography of Nielsen's symphonies included a smattering of releases by Leonard Bernstein and ...
With such outstanding artists as conductor Herbert Blomstedt and the Dresden Staatskapelle performing Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 9 in C major, "Great," one wonders why no mention is made of it on the jacket of this disc from Berlin Classics. Ostensibly, the Basics series offers the barest amount of information so budget shoppers and newcomers ...
American-born, Swedish-raised conductor Herbert Blomstedt loves the orchestral music of Danish composer Carl Nielsen so much that he's recorded his complete symphonies twice -- first in stereo in the mid-'70s with the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra for EMI and then again in digital in the late '80s with the San Francisco Symphony for Decca. But ...
Any conductor whose transformative experience was hearing Reger's Mozart Variations is obviously a conductor in a million. Likewise an orchestra whose calling card is Reger's Mozart Variations and whose principal conductors' have always made a specialty of the work is obviously an orchestra in a million. And yet here is Herbert Blomstedt with his ...
Lest it ever be forgotten, the 1980 recording of Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D minor, "Choral," by Herbert Blomstedt and the Dresden Staatskapelle has been reissued by Brilliant Classics multiple times, and one might assume that it merits some attention for the myriad occasions it has been repackaged. It is certainly a durable ...
Lest it ever be forgotten, the 1980 recording of Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D minor, "Choral," by Herbert Blomstedt and the Dresden Staatskapelle has been reissued multiple times, and one might assume that it merits some attention for the myriad occasions it has been repackaged. It is certainly a durable performance that closely ...
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