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 ...
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, ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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's second venture in recording Gustav Mahler's symphonies for RCA Red Seal is a brisk and propulsive reading of the Symphony No. 2 in C minor, "Resurrection," one upon which he and the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra appear to have lavished all their energies and skills. This hybrid SACD package presents the massive work on two discs -- one ...
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, ...
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, ...
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