Classical Reviews/Orchestral

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This is the 35th and final release in Cala’s survey of the recordings of Leopold Stokowski. Thanks to them and the devoted members of the Leopold...

I usually do not respond well to recital discs such as this, but it didn’t take long for this one to win me over. Why? Because...


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The most frustrating thing about this ear-opening release is its complete lack of liner notes. All the following information about the Orange County High School of...

Every now and then, I come across a disc that leaves me scratching my head and asking “Why?” This is just such a disc. The music...

This cheaply priced set brings together a number of recordings made in the early 1990s in Venezuela, featuring the Simón Bolívar Orchestra under the baton of...

As always, the challenge presented by this most traditional of concerts is to balance coherent and thoughtful exploration of the less familiar items in the catalog...


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A recommendation, here. All these modest pieces are attractive, you won’t find most of the music elsewhere, and the young players do the works pretty good...

The single CD listed second in the header enables you to get the same Brahms Requiem without the many other items in the five-CD set. The...

Timothy Buzbee is a fine tuba player. A previous disc of his, “Buzzed,” was positively reviewed in these pages ( Fanfare 32:4), and this one deserves...

What a marvelous, intriguing disc this is. Wagner arranged this way and that, recontextualized, arguably defiled, all with a sense of infectious fun and all performed...

Szymon Goldberg, a student of Carl Flesch (after studying with Mieczyslaw Michalowicz), worked as concertmaster in Dresden and Berlin before being ousted by the Nazis from...

Large collections such as these are exceedingly difficult to deal with in reviews, not leastwise because there is neither the time nor the space to address...