The first flush of the digital era brought about a boatload of unexpected recordings, including this set of Hindemith's Kammermusik by Claudio Abbado and the Berliner Philharmoniker. Prior to Abbado's, there had already been two superlative recordings in the digital era: Riccardo Chailly and the Concertgebouw Orchestra's propulsive and virtuosic ...
You know the old debate over the Missa Solemnis, the whole "Is it sacred music for the concert hall or secular music for the church" question? Don't worry about it. The issue doesn't come up in this 1994 recording of the work with Georg Solti conducting the Berlin Philharmonic. For Solti, the answer is an obvious one: the Missa Solemnis may have a ...
This brilliant program of Dmitry Shostakovich's one and only violin sonatas with two of Mieczyslaw Weinberg's five violin sonatas would have been better served by better playing. Weinberg's sonatas, both from 1947, are tonal works of grave seriousness and solemn intensity, while Shostakovich's sonata from 1968, although still basically tonal, ...
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