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November 11, 2009
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This disc sounds wonderful. It is also completely boring. One of my conducting teachers called concerts like this one a mass grave.
There is one glaring problem with the conducting. The conductor cuts out the pizzicato chord at the end of the first movement of the Holberg Suite. It must be because ... more |
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November 11, 2009
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Michael Feinstein's singing is lovely as usual. The arrangements are completely overblown and don't work. Most problematic is that the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra cannot swing. They sound like Russians playing jazz. That really does not work. There was a bitter sweet joke about something like this ... more |
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November 11, 2009
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Beautiful disc of lovely "nuevo tango" with works by Ástor Piazzolla. A student of Nadia Boulanger, Piazzolla revitalized Gardel's beloved, tango, born in whorehouses like American jazz, and gave it all sorts of classical leanings, with harmonies reminiscent of jazz and Vivaldi. YES, Vivaldi. ... more |
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November 11, 2009
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The Boston Symphony owns Daphnis et Chloe... PERIOD!!!
Start with the Munch recording, then come to this one. I only wish Sony would give us a surround multichannel of Boulez with the New York Philharmonic (the Berlin recording is tame and dull by comparison) of which we can only hear the last ... more |
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November 11, 2009
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BRAVO!!!
Levine does it again with the German Requiem. His Chicago Symphony recording for RCA in the early days of RBCD was exciting, lyrical and wonderful, all in the right places, as were his CSO performances of Brahms symphonies. Yes, the Boston Symphony website is a hassle to navigate, but his ... more |
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