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Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra – Sakari Oramo conducts Ligeti’s Lontano & Ravel’s Daphnis, with Anu Komsi singing Saariaho’s Saarikoski Songs. Live YLA Areena webcast.

Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra – Sakari Oramo conducts Ligeti’s Lontano & Ravel’s Daphnis, with Anu Komsi singing Saariaho’s Saarikoski Songs. Live YLA Areena webcast.

Mar 29, 2023 | Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Videos

Wednesday, March 29, 2023 Concert Hall, Helsinki Music Centre, Mannerheimintie 13 A, 00100 Helsinki, Finland Sakari Oramo has already distinguished himself as an interpreter of Ravel’s music,...
John Wilson & Sinfonia of London record Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony for Chandos.

John Wilson & Sinfonia of London record Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony for Chandos.

Mar 26, 2023 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews

The disc opens with Rachmaninov’s C-sharp minor Prelude as orchestrated by Stokowski, a huge workout for Jonathan Cooper’s microphones, a test easily passed in St Augustine’s (January last year, Brian Pidgeon producing), orchestral extremes paraded...
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra – Kazuki Yamada conducts Takemitsu and Dutilleux, with Lise de la Salle playing Rachmaninov. Live YLA Areena webcast.

Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra – Kazuki Yamada conducts Takemitsu and Dutilleux, with Lise de la Salle playing Rachmaninov. Live YLA Areena webcast.

Mar 24, 2023 | Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Videos

Friday, March 24, 2023 Concert Hall, Helsinki Music Centre, Mannerheimintie 13 A, 00100 Helsinki, Finland Kazuki Yamada (Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla’s successor at the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra) opened with Toru Takemitsu’s Aboriginal- and...
RELEASED TODAY, March 24: LSO Live – François-Xavier Roth records Strauss’s Zarathustra & Debussy’s Jeux.

RELEASED TODAY, March 24: LSO Live – François-Xavier Roth records Strauss’s Zarathustra & Debussy’s Jeux.

Mar 24, 2023 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews

Originally published on March 17 Anyone for philosophical tennis? The opening of Richard Strauss’s Nietzsche-inspired Also sprach Zarathustra from the LSO and François-Xavier Roth is spectacularly cinematic (I am trying hard to not mention Kubrick and 2001) and...
Elisabeth Leonskaja records Beethoven’s Piano Concertos 3 & 4 with Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse & Tugan Sokhiev for Warner Classics.

Elisabeth Leonskaja records Beethoven’s Piano Concertos 3 & 4 with Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse & Tugan Sokhiev for Warner Classics.

Mar 23, 2023 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews

There’s a majesty and unselfishness to these performances that finds Elisabeth Leonskaja true to her words: “When I play, I am not presenting myself on the stage, but the music I am playing. It is the music that matters.” In the Fourth Concerto she distils...
ICA Classics releases Kurt Sanderling/Shostakovich Ten and Kirill Kondrashin/Balakirev Islamey.

ICA Classics releases Kurt Sanderling/Shostakovich Ten and Kirill Kondrashin/Balakirev Islamey.

Mar 21, 2023 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews

Kurt Sanderling’s conducting of Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony (recorded May 15, 1973, the composer still alive) is a profoundly revealing affair, maybe not to put into words, but you know the recreator has a hot-line to the composer in terms of the...
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