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Tag Archives: IRR
Roguish Mozart from Pip Eastop in Mozart’s horn concertos
Mozart: Horn Concertos 1-4; Horn Quintet in E flat major K407 Pip Eastop; Eroica String Quartet; The Hanover Band/ Anthony Halstead (Hyperion CDA68097) Modestly, the booklet biography of Anthony Halstead for this release makes reference only to his conducting or … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Halstead, Hanover Band, Hyperion, IRR, Mozart, Pip Eastop
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A beguiling Scheherazade from Istanbul
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade Sascha Goetzel/ Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra (Onyx) Peter Oundjian/ Toronto Symphony Orchestra (Chandos) Full of Eastern promise, Scheherazade weaves her sinuous way into my affections once again, with new recordings from Istanbul and Toronto. Rimsky-Korsakov’s Arabian Nights-inspired orchestral … Continue reading
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Tagged Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic, Chandos, IRR, Onyx, Peter Oundjian, Rimsky-Korsakov, Sascha Goetzel, Scheherazade, Toronto Symphony
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An essential “Babi Yar” from Kirill Kondrashin on Praga
Shostakovich: Symphony No.13 ‘Babi Yar’; Prokofiev: October Kirill Kondrashin/Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra (Praga) Even for Dmitri Shostakovich, few works had such a controversial genesis as his Thirteenth Symphony, “Babi Yar”. It was originally intended as a one movement cantata, based on … Continue reading
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Tagged IRR, Kirill Kondrashin, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Praga, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Vitaly Gromadsky
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Netrebko’s Tatyana the main draw in new Met Opera Onegin
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin Metropolitan Opera/Valery Gergiev (DG) Anna Netrebko’s Tatyana has been a long time coming. Ever since I first saw her, with her elfin, Audrey Hepburn looks, perched on a balcony as Natasha in Prokofiev’s War and Peace, she … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Netrebko, DG, Eugene Onegin, IRR, Mariusz Kwiecien, Metropolitan Opera, Piotr Beczała, Tchaikovsky, Valery Gergiev
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A superb live Don Carlo from Karajan in Vienna
Verdi: Don Carlo Herbert von Karajan/Wiener Staatsoper (Orfeo) When comparing all the interpretations of Verdi’s Don Carlo(s) on disc (November 2011), I awarded Herbert von Karajan’s 1978 EMI set the title ‘most frustrating studio account’. Wonderfully cast, it suffered at … Continue reading
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Tagged Agnes Baltsa, Don Carlo, Edita Gruberova, Herbert von Karajan, IRR, José Carreras, Matti Salminen, Mirella Freni, Piero Cappuccilli, Ruggero Raimondi, Verdi, Wiener Staatsoper
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