The suites from Peer Gynt, through no fault of his own, are Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg's calling card. Certain pieces, such as "Morning Mood" and "In the Hall of the Mountain King" are well known even among those who have never heard of Grieg. However, Grieg's incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt is only seldom recorded as a ...
This two-disc set is a sampler of operatic singers from the corporately related Virgin Classics and EMI labels, and like most such samplers it delivers a good deal less than it promises. The marketing is scattershot, for one thing: the two-disc set purports to offer both the "new generation" of singers and "greatest arias" -- whether of these ...
For many decades, Jean Sibelius' Kullervo was the greatest work that he wrote that no one heard. Although a resounding success at its 1892 premiere in Helsinki, the typically self-critical Sibelius withdrew it in 1893 and never again allowed its performance while he lived, save a lone revival in 1936. Although it re-entered Sibelius' catalog in ...
For many decades, Jean Sibelius' Kullervo was the greatest work that he wrote that no one heard. Although a resounding success at its 1892 premiere in Helsinki, the typically self-critical Sibelius withdrew it in 1893 and never again allowed its performance while he lived, save a lone revival in 1936. Although it re-entered Sibelius' catalog in ...
Sibelius' Kullervo, an early five-movement tone poem on love, war, death, and heroism, has often seemed awkward, ill formed, and too long on recordings -- one thinks immediately of Paavo Berglund's world-premiere 1970 recording -- and only rarely seemed majestic and magnificent -- one thinks immediately of Jukka-Pekka Saraste's urgent 2002 ...
Judged on its clarity of detail and faithfulness to the score, this recording of Mahler's majestic Symphony No. 8 ranks as one of the most exacting and authoritative ever made. Yet there are less tangible aspects to which the excellence of this performance must be attributed. Riccardo Chailly paces this symphony in long, confident strides, neither ...
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