Before hearing Jacques Offenbach's works for cello and orchestra, abandon any expectations of serious concerto writing, and prepare instead for musical comedy, albeit of an instrumental variety. Offenbach's habitual tunefulness and tendency to compose medleys undermines conventional notions of form and development, and his Concerto militaire in G ...
How many recordings of Dvorák's Král a Uhlír -- King and Charcoal Burner -- does anyone need? How many could anyone have? The work's only previous digital recording was a serviceable if uninspiring and drastically cut reading with Josef Chaloupka leading the Prague National Theatre Orchestra released in 1989 by Supraphon, and except among the ...
This radio performance is one of those that transmits, from another era to our own, some of what audiences found vital in an earlier day. The music was recorded in 1968 at the studios of the West German Radio in Cologne, but, as the compelling booklet notes convey, its performance style was rooted in the years after World War II. It was then, ...
With this Dutchman on DHM, Bruno Weil attempts to refresh Wagner's classic by returning it to its original form. He deploys a scaled-down orchestra of period instruments (including both natural and valved brass, and an ophicleide in place of the modern tuba) and uses the original Paris version of the score, which predates even Wagner's own ...
With Kim Novak's smile, Grace Kelly's style, and Ingrid Bergman's sensuality, Renée Fleming's recording of Richard Strauss' Daphne is a Hitchcock heroine made into music. His final hymn to love and death and transformation, Strauss' Daphne is another in a long line of radiantly virginal female leads who come to a bad end, in this case, being ...
Technically this recording may be an interesting audiophile curiosity: a 1980 recording of the Gossec Messe des Morts or requiem mass, made in a church in the German city of Wuppertal, is retooled using an arsenal of digital editing techniques into a Super Audio CD release ready to feed the growing appetite for music by composers of the Classical ...
Leos Janácek: Lasské Tance -- Suita opus 3 is a collection of early works by the eminent Czech composer on the German label Orfeo conducted by Gerd Albrecht. Albrecht leads the WDR Sinfonie Orchester Köln in the Lachian Dances and in Janácek's Suita pro orchestr Op. 3, whereas he pilots a small group of singers, the NDR-Chor and the WDR ...
During the trend of composers writing operas about composers (witness, for example, Alfred Schnittke's 1994 Gesualdo, Franz Hummel's 1996 Gesualdo, and Bo Holten's 2004 Gesualdo) it was not, in fact, an entirely new phenomenon. Pfitzner's 1915 Palestrina is the earliest composer-opera to have come anywhere close to entering the repertoire, but ...
Bruckner buffs may recognize the name of Siegmund von Hausegger as the conductor who, in 1932, championed Bruckner's Ninth Symphony by presenting it for the first time in its original, unaltered form. Apart from this, his name has largely been lost to history. Considering his importance as a conductor in his time and the quality and quantity of ...
To adequately appreciate Igor Stravinsky's three mature symphonies -- the Symphony in Three Movements (1945), the Symphony in C (1940), and the Symphony of Psalms (1930) -- it helps to have first-rate performances that are both crystal clear in execution and appropriate in interpretation, led by a maestro who keeps both needs in mind. Michael ...
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