On the surface, this Ring cycle recording -- though a bargain price -- might seem like a poor relation to those by Sir Georg Solti, Herbert von Karajan, James Levine, and others, or to the live recordings from the 1950s by the likes of Wilhelm Furtwängler, Clemens Kraus, and Hans Knappertsbusch. The very names constitute big guns in opera, and ...
The music of Johannes Brahms, especially his symphonic works, represents a culmination of the conservative romantic style and is a cornerstone of any musician or collector's repertoire. There is a plentiful diversity of recordings on the market large enough to suit nearly every taste, ranging from Herbert von Karajan's notoriously weighty and ...
The Franck D minor Symphony can be a treacherous undertaking for almost any orchestra. Its highly repetitive nature sets the trap for what could be a boring, monotonous performance if not executed with a great deal of forward-moving energy and attention to nuance. Fortunately, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande under the direction of Marek ...
Listeners who love the music of Debussy but wish it were a whole lot sexier should check out Florent Schmitt's ballet La Tragédie de Salomé. It's just as lushly chromatic and dazzlingly colorful as Debussy's music but far more directly sensual and openly sexual. While not quite as debauched as Strauss' opera of the same name, Schmitt's Salomé with ...
Marek Janowski's 2007 recording of Anton Bruckner's unfinished Symphony No. 9 in D minor with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande is quite possibly the best sounding of any recording ever made of this work, and the hybrid multichannel SACD format gives it every possible advantage. From the soft, somber fanfares that open the first movement to the ...
The symphony is not a genre that immediately comes to mind when thinking of Henze, but by 2009 he had composed 10, a not inconsiderable achievement. Here, the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, led by Marek Janowski, plays two of his most substantial (and traditional) symphonies: No. 7 and No. 8. No. 7, written in 1984, was commissioned by the ...
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