If You Think Classical Music is Dead, You're Dead Wrong!
RECORD KEEPING | Heath Quartet Get Tchaikovsky Just Right With New CD Release
By John Terauds on January 17, 2017
The Heath Quartet are quickly earning a reputation as one of Britain's finest string quartets. Their new Tchaikovsky release on the Harmonia Mundi label now confirms that reputation.
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RECORD KEEPING | Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony With Passion And Intensity From Beginning To End
By Paul E. Robinson on March 22, 2018
New RCO recording of Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony featuring soprano Annette Dasch and mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill is passion and intensity from beginning to end.
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RECORD KEEPING | Nézet-Séguin Holds Bruckner To The Highest Possible Standard With L’Orchestre Metropolitain
By Paul E. Robinson on December 5, 2016
ATMA Classique continues its cycle of the complete symphonies of Anton Bruckner with the release of Symphony No. 2 performed by the Orchestre Métropolitain conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
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RECORD KEEPING | Leonard Bernstein: Larger Than Life (DVD)
By Paul E. Robinson on July 11, 2016
Leonard Bernstein: Larger Than Life aims to capture the true Leonard Bernstein, but is only modestly successful.
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RECORD KEEPING | R. Murray Schafer: Apocalypsis (Analekta)
By Paul E. Robinson on April 23, 2016
"Schafer has created a sound world that is convincingly primitive from beginning to end." Analekta releases R. Murray Schafer's Apocalypsis, a massive extravaganza comprised of two parts.
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RECORD KEEPING | Mahler: Symphony No. 1 (Yannick Nézet-Séguin)
By Paul E. Robinson on August 4, 2016
...an exciting, beautifully conceived and rendered Mahler One.
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RECORD KEEPING | Even Yannick Nézet-Séguin Can't Make Us Love Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito
By Paul E. Robinson on September 6, 2018
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Rolando Villazón, and Joyce DiDonato do their best to convince us that La Clemenza di Tito is a masterpiece.
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RECORD KEEPING | Lawrence Wiliford's Pitch-Perfect 'O Gladsome Light' Shines The Way
By Paul E. Robinson on February 20, 2018
One could hardly imagine a better performance than the one on this album, with Canadian tenor Lawrence Wiliford offering pitch-perfect intonation and beautiful tone.
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RECORD KEEPING | Some Of The Finest Beethoven We Have Ever Heard
By Paul E. Robinson on October 18, 2017
Now, at the age of 46, Kissin is again recording for DG, and this new all-Beethoven release confirms his stature as an artist of the first rank.
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RECORD KEEPING | Boston Symphony Hits The Shostakovich Bullseye (Again)
By Paul E. Robinson on August 15, 2018
Just when you thought you've heard the best, the Boston Symphony may have just set a new standard for Shostakovich's Symphony No. 4.
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