RECORD KEEPING | Two New Recordings Devoted To Transcriptions By Leopold Stokowski
By Paul E. Robinson on July 4, 2016
Paul Robinson reviews two new CDs devoted to transcriptions by the great conductor, Leopold Stokowski.
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By Paul E. Robinson on July 4, 2016
Paul Robinson reviews two new CDs devoted to transcriptions by the great conductor, Leopold Stokowski.
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After thirteen years at the helm of the Berlin Philharmonic, Sir Simon Rattle and his orchestra have produced their own Beethoven cycle. Extras include a video introduction with Sir Simon Rattle and a documentary about the making of the recordings with many interviews and glimpses behind-the-scenes.
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Shakespeare in Music & Words is a mixed bag, to be sure, but for a bargain price, most Shakespeare fans and music-lovers will find much to enjoy on this CD.
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Paul E Robinson reviews two new Ravel CDs by Orchestre National de Lyon and Leonard Slatkin.
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KAMP! Songs and Satire from Theresienstadt a testament to the resilience of the human spirit.
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With the release of these new Dvořák symphony performances, Orozco-Estrada and the HSO document the beginning of a lasting relationship.
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Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Manfred Honeck don't hide the passion in new recording of Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 and Dvořák's Rusalka Fantasy.
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"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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Who knew that two leading 20th-century French composers had collaborated on an opera? Honegger & Ibert: L'Aiglon (Live in Montreal with l'Orchestre symphonique de Montréal)
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Elgar’s Symphony No. 1 has a unique power to move us in passage after passage. In the end, all we can say is that the composer has created something uncommonly beautiful. So too have conductor Daniel Barenboim and his musicians in this recording.
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