Apr 7, 2023 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews
With the Berliner Philharmoniker currently in Baden-Baden for opera performances (Strauss’s Die Frau ohne Schatten) and concerts – the Strauss is live from Berlin on April 14 via the Digital Concert Hall – this is a good time to alleviate any sense of Berliner...
Apr 7, 2023 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews
Commissioned to mark the 1976 bicentenary of the United States Declaration of Independence, From the Canyons to the Stars … was premiered two years earlier than that, in Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York City. In preparation Messiaen had visited Utah and then...
Apr 1, 2023 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews
Leonard Slatkin’s Detroit survey of Rachmaninov’s three Symphonies is a must for the library, the three discs (2009-12) now happily boxed for a revealing immersive experience. It’s more than the Symphonies, for there is also a brooding Isle of the Dead, that is...
Mar 31, 2023 | Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]
Friday, March 31, 2023 National Philharmonic Hall, Warsaw, Poland It’s one thing to discover the Missa solemnis when playing viola in a student performance, but quite another to then want to conduct Beethoven’s transcendental Mass in D. Leonard Slatkin first did so in...
Mar 31, 2023 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews
Originally published on March 26 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...
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,...
