For a change of pace, how about a great recording of Beethoven's C minor Piano Concerto? Instead of the standard rehash of Beethoven's C minor Concerto, how about a recording of thrilling virtuosity, exciting drama, exquisite lyricism, and, above all, relentless drive? Is it even possible? Despite fine recordings of the work over the years -- one ...
Of course this is what Beethoven is supposed to sound like. All the warmth, the breadth, the depth, the height, the solemnity, the hilarity, the agony, and, of course, the wild-eyed ecstasy that are in Beethoven in these performances of his complete Overtures by David Zinman leading the Tonhalle Orchestre Zurich. As Zinman proved in his cycle of ...
There are four types of Schumann conductors. There are those terrible Schumann conductors who make Schumann sound like he had no idea how to write a symphony and less than no idea how to orchestrate. Then there are those mediocre Schumann conductors who make Schumann sound like he had some idea what he was doing but still very little idea of how ...
Of course you've got to hear them. These are performances of the first new editions of Beethoven's Seventh and Eighth symphonies in more than a century. With immense rigor and enormous love, Jonathan del Mar has given musicians and music lovers an edition of the core works of the symphonic repertoire that is shockingly strange and strangely ...
Like many contemporary recordings of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 1 in D major, "Titan," this hybrid SACD from RCA includes a performance of the full symphony with the discarded movement "Blumine." It has become fashionable for conductors to insert this brief pastoral piece as a quiet interlude between the first and second movements, even though ...
Bright, stylish, and lovely, Pamela Frank's recordings of Mozart's five Violin Concertos with David Zinman conducting the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra are surely among the best since Arthur Grumiaux's classic recordings with Colin Davis and the London Symphony of half a century ago. Frank's tone is lean but supple, her intonation is warm but pure, ...
If you love Chopin, by all means, get these recordings. If you love great piano playing, by all means, get these recordings. If you love life and beauty and grace and love, by all means, get these recordings. Because these are, beyond all argument, the greatest Chopin recordings ever made. In the face of recordings by Cortot, Hoffmann, Rubinstein, ...
Falling under the general category of modern-instrument versions informed by studies of historical performance, this disc offers a fresh reading of Beethoven's Piano Concertos No. 1 and No. 2. In a way its prime mover is conductor David Zinman leading the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra and keeping everything restricted to modest dimensions. His ...
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 ...
In the LP era, Haydn's Trumpet Concerto in E flat and the Trumpet Concerto in E major of Johann Nepomuk Hummel could fill out a single album as a mutually informative and enjoyable pair. The pesky extra half hour available on a CD presents a problem, for Classical-era works for trumpet and orchestra are sparse. Various solutions have been tried, ...
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 ...
Who knows what terror tactics Karl Böhm used to coerce the Orchestre de la Tonhalle de Zurich to play Bruckner's Eighth so well? Did he mock the violas? Did he excoriate the brass? Did he blame the concert master for everything? Böhm might have -- he'd done so before and he'd do so again -- but ultimately it doesn't really matter. Böhm is dead and ...
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