David Zinman and the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra's seven-disc set of Strauss' orchestral works covers all the greatest hits plus the usually B-sides along with a couple of bonus tracks and odd-ball choices thrown in. The first big hits are here, the libidinous Don Juan through megalomaniacal Also Sprach Zarathustra, plus the later hits, the massive ...
Great as it is -- and, let's face it, it's the greatest symphony ever written -- the Ninth Symphony isn't Beethoven's greatest choral-orchestral work. His greatest choral-orchestral work, as Beethoven was the first to point out, was the Missa Solemnis. After all, the Ninth may be great through and through, but it's only choral-orchestral in the ...
The repertory of recordings dealing with Classical-era figures beyond the mighty triumvirate of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven continues to grow, and this attractive Super Audio disc of quintets by the Viennese composer and publisher Franz Anton Hoffmeister illuminates several stylistic trends of the period and, as much now as it did in its own day, ...
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