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2023-12-18 05:30:00
KN's Favorite Recordings of 2023
[…] replaced by the recorded sounds of actual wind – a first in my experience). The engineering team on this Hyperion release has met the challenge of capturing the power of the assembled forces. RVW’s Symphony No. 9 seems to be greatly underappreciated, which is a shame, for it is a marvelous work. Brabbins and his BBC forces make a strong case for this final symphony, in a performance that stands right up there with previous favorites such as Manze and Slatkin. If you are one of those casual RVW fans who might have overlooked his Symphony No. 9, this new Hyperion recording would be an excellent opportunity for you make your acquaintance with something special indeed.
2023-10-29 18:04:00
BPO/Minasi - Mozart, 27 October 2023
[…] followed, timpani prominent, as indeed they had been in the overture, but underpinning the harmony rather than at the expense of others. This was a collegial performance all round. The first movement’s opening would surely have touched even the most reluctant of hearts—and set pulses racing. I could not help but notice the many benefits brought by modern trumpets (as opposed to the ‘period’ versions curiously employed by the Chamber Orchestra of Europe under Andrew Manze a few days earlier, in an otherwise modern set-up). The development section here can all too readily be overlooked; Minasi took it seriously, imparting to it something of its own, albeit related tintà, harmony and counterpoint admirably clear and directed. The recapitulation was upon us before we knew it, yet all had been changed in a performance that married detail and sweep through the most brilliant of orchestral playing. If the Andante was taken […]
2023-10-25 12:17:00
Kammermusiksaal Beethoven: Overture: Coriolan, op.62 Mozart: Piano Concerto no.21 in C major, KV 467 Haydn: Symphony no.98 in B-flat major Jan Lisiecki (piano)Chamber Orchestra of EuropeAndrew Manze (conductor) In some ways, this concert proved a mixed bag, but it was well planned and it came right where ultimately it mattered. Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture was the weakest of the three performances. The symphonic Beethoven continues to elude not only, it seems, the grasp of most though not all contemporary conductors; this seems often to hold for audiences too, seemingly unaware as they lap up the latest fads of what they are missing. Was ever there a time when we needed Beethoven more? Not since the 1940s when, ironically, such music seemed better able to speak. Listen to Furtwängler in this overture, and the tragic impulse will never have felt more immanent. Alas, justified postwar suspicion of totalities has now degenerated into a […]
2023-08-03 04:00:00
Schmelzer: Violin Sonatas (Romanesca)
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (ca. 1620-1680)Sonatae unarum fidium (Sonatas Nos. 1-6)Violin Sonata ''Cucu'' Violin Sonata in A minor ''Victori der Christen'' Andrew Manze, ViolinNigel North, Lute & TheorboJohn Toll, Harpsichord & OrganRomanesca(Period Instruments)Harmonia Mundi France HMU 907143 (0996)[Flac & Scans]
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