Walter Weller, where are you when you're needed?The concert master turned conductor, Weller was one of the most appealing of the generation of conductors that came of age in the '80s. He had a superb technique, an ear for balances, and a sure hand for phrasing. He knew how to use dynamics to build a climax and he knew how to use tempo ...
This may be a CD's worth of recycled recordings from the 1980s dressed up as An Introduction to Ludwig van Beethoven, but it differs from other best-of Beethoven releases out there in one major respect: the album doesn't consist of a sequence of excerpts. After an introductory overture to The Creatures of Prometheus, you will hear two complete ...
A former violinist turned conductor, Austrian Walter Weller has long championed Bohuslav Martinu's music in general and the Fourth Symphony in particular; he made a radiant recording of the work back in 1980 for EMI with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. This 2008 recording with the National Orchestra of Belgium is even better. Though ...
Marked as extraneously difficult and even unplayable since its composition in 1886, Richard Strauss' Burleske for Piano and Orchestra rarely finds its way onto CD programs and even less frequently in live concert halls. Much like the extreme demands Strauss places on orchestral musicians, the technical feats called for in Burleske are truly ...
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