Classical Reviews/Orchestral

18 interviews, and over 500 reviews of classical CDs, SACDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays in this 624-page issue!

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This North/South disc showcases new music by four American composers of consequence. North/South Consonance is a nonprofit organization devoted to promoting, performing, and recording the music...

This release features live performances on the first of these two CDs, the second being devoted exclusively to rehearsals in studio 8H in 1946 and ’47....


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Liszt’s Les Preludes, the opening number in this document of Valery Gergiev’s concert at the Schönbrunn Palace this past summer, seems perfectly suited to the venue...

This is Volume 2 in Challenge Classics’ major Otterloo retrospective (for some reason, I don’t think Volume 1 ever made it to this side of the...

Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. That might describe the contents of this trumpet fanciers’ program. The old, as in a comfortable, well-worn shoe,...