Back in Print: Peter Hurford’s Seminal Bach Survey On Argo/DeccaReview by: Jens F. Laurson
Artistic Quality: ?Sound Quality: ?Peter Hurford’s traversal of Bach’s complete organ works has been out of print for years. As a result, all that I had to go by, for assessing Hurford’s take on that oeuvre—which, outside the cantatas, best shows Bach at his essence—was a well-loved, much-played
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Siegfried (Stefan Vinke)
From the third day of the 2019 Budapest Wagner Days come these pictures of Siegfried. (See production pictures of Das Rheingold here and Die Walküre here – and the ClassicsToday review here.) If the Rheingold stunned with a (largely) no-name cast that was absolutely bona-fide world class (most especially Alberich, Loge, Mime, and Fasolt along with the established Wotan of
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One-To-A-Part Bach Harpsichord Concertos: Great In Detail But Big-Picture PaleReview by: Jens F. Laurson
Artistic Quality: ?Sound Quality: ?Ideology has done much to shape how we listen to baroque music. There was, for one, the one-voice-per-part coterie around Joshua Rifkin that insisted on undernourished performances of cantatas and now-no-longer “choral” works. Analogously, in instrumental
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J.Ireland, Music arranged for String Orchestra
D.Curtis / Orchestra of the Swan
(Naxos)
John Ireland’s legacy as a teacher might be greater than as a composer; he taught a good swath of England’s 20th century music—most notably Benjamin Britten—at the Royal College of Music. But his music, too, is worthwhile. True “Surprised by Beauty” material… in fact, so beautiful is his music,
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Budapest Bruckner: Unimpressive SublimeReview by: Jens F. Laurson
Artistic Quality: ?Sound Quality: ?If you dig deep enough into this Bruckner Ninth, if you are set up for SACD-Surround Sound and have no neighbors, and if you care about orchestral nuance more than goosebumps, this recording by Concerto Budapest might be for you. There is no doubt that András Keller (of Keller Quartet fame) has
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Bruckner From Switzerland, Handicapped And Below ParReview by: Jens F. LaursonArtistic Quality: ?Sound Quality: ?I wouldn’t rule out that a small orchestra with something to say can’t do invigorating romantic music—even Bruckner. Thomas Dausgaard’s Bruckner Second comes to mind, where the incense-free très sportif atmosphere does its part to bring out Bruckner’s kinship with Schubert. So when
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A. Salieri, Tarare, C. Dubois, K. Deshayes, J.-S. Bou, J. van Wanroij, Les Talens Lyriques, Les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, C. Rousset
(released on July 12, 2019)
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Among Christophe Rousset’s major accomplishments as a conductor is his revival of the operas of Antonio Salieri. We took note of his recording of the composer’s Les Danaïdes a few years ago
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Hunding (Albert Pesendorfer) and his dogs
From the second day of the 2019 Budapest Wagner Days come these pictures of Die Walküre. (See production pictures of Das Rheingold here – and the ClassicsToday review here.) If the Rheingold stunned with a (largely) no-name cast that was absolutely bona-fide world class (most especially Alberich, Loge, Mime, and Fasolt along with the established Wotan of
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À mon chevet is a series of posts featuring a quote from whatever book is on my nightstand at the moment.
For my own part, the transgressional was associated with an enormous sense of freedom on the one hand, and enormous shame on the other, played out in a rather unsophisticated fashion in a few too many beers followed by a couple of hours of undesirable yet delightfully unfettered behavior as
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