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Michael Tilson Thomas continues San Francisco Beethoven cycle with Symphony No. 7 and ‘Leonore’ No. 3 – May 01, 2012
Michael Tilson Thomas’s Beethoven symphony cycle with the San Francisco Symphony continues with a coupling of the Seventh Symphony and the Third Leonore Overture [...]
Daniel Barenboim’s acclaimed Bruckner 7 with the Staatskapelle Berlin to be released by DG – Apr 30, 2012
Deutsche Grammophon is to release a live recording of Daniel Bruckner’s acclaimed performance of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony with the Staatskapelle Berlin in June 2010. [...]
L’ARPEGGIATA Los Pajaros Perdidos – Apr 27, 2012
As long as you appreciate that what Christina Pluhar does with her pseudo-early music ensemble L’Arpeggiata is crossover, you will understand how to assess [...]
Robert Hollingworth and I Fagiolini to restore lost Italian treasures from 1612 for Decca – Apr 26, 2012
Conductor Robert Hollingworth and the British vocal ensemble I Fagiolini are to reconstruct a 400-year-old lost choral masterpiece for seven choirs and release world-premiere [...]
VASALLO Monuments Emerge – Apr 25, 2012
The music of Asian-American composer Nick Vasallo is characterized by a fastidiously shaped palette in which form and function is determined by a series [...]
PACIFICA QUARTET The Soviet Experience, Volume 2 – Apr 23, 2012
Having launched its four-volume, eight-disc cycle of Shostakovich’s 15 string quartets with Quartets Nos. 5-8 (Michael Quinn gave the set an enthusiastic welcome at [...]
NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT Walzer Revolution – Apr 20, 2012
The concept behind this pair of discs is one thing – and when we read in the booklet that “with the present release, Nikolaus [...]
TELEMANN Germanicus – Apr 18, 2012
The Leipzig Opernhaus was only the second opera house built in Germany, opening its doors in 1692. Staging operas during the city’s thrice-yearly trade [...]
Historic Tilson Thomas/Buffalo Philharmonic recording of complete Carl Ruggles to get first release on CD – Apr 17, 2012
Michael Tilson Thomas and the Buffalo Philharmonic’s historic and long deleted 1980 recording of the complete music by Carl Ruggles, originally issued on Columbia [...]
CHEN JIE Butterfly Lovers and Yellow River Piano Concertos – Apr 16, 2012
The Yellow River Cantata was written, so popular legend has it, in just one week during March 1939 by Xian Xing Hai. Hailed as [...]
