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Harmonia Mundi

Classical CD Reviews: François-Xavier Roth conducts Mahler 3 and Benjamin Zander conducts Mahler 9

Benjamin Zander conducts a conspicuously fine Mahler Nine; François-Xavier Roth’s new account of Mahler’s Symphony no. 3 proffers nothing particularly special.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Music, Review Tagged: Benjamin-Zander, Brattle Media, Francois-Xavier Roth, Harmonia Mundi

Classical CD Reviews: Colin Davis’s “Berlioz Odyssey,” “Bernard Haitink: Portrait,” and “The Age of Revolutions”

Anniversaries are both the bane and the lifeblood of the classical music industry as, for better or worse, three new box sets remind.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: BR Klassik, Harmonia Mundi, LSO Live

Classical Music CD Reviews: Michael Gordon’s “The Unchanging Sea” and Alban Berg’s “Wozzeck”

Michael Gordon’s score for The Unchanging Sea works better as soundtrack than a concert work; Harmonia mundi releases a DVD of William Kentridge’s powerful staging of Alban Berg’s Wozzeck.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Cantaloupe, Harmonia Mundi, Michael Gordon, The Unchanging Sea, William Kentridge

Classical CD Reviews: Paul Lewis Plays Weber and Schubert, Steven Isserlis and Olli Mustonen Serve Shostakovich

Two highly recommended recordings by well-known artists performing some rather off-the-beaten-path repertoire.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Harmonia Mundi, Hyperion, Olli Mustonen, Paul Lewis, Steven Isserlis

Classical CD Reviews: Shades of Debussy at 100

An impressive collection of nine new releases (seven of which are reviewed here). While some might not displace the classic recordings of Debussy already out there, this gathering offers some welcome and fresh interpretive contrasts.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Alain Planès, Alexander Melnikov, Claude Debussy, Eugene Asti, Francois-Xavier Roth, Harmonia Mundi, Javier Perianes, Jerusalem Quartet, Les Siècles, Nikolai Lugansky, Sophie Karthäuser, Stéphane Degout

Classical Music CD Review: American Romantics, Mozart Sonatas for Fortepiano & Violi, & Brahms Cello Sonatas

American String Quartet’s disc features the premiere recording of Robert Sirota’s String Quartet no. 2, American Pilgrimage.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: American Romantics, American String Quartet, Brahms Cello Sonatas, Centaur, Harmonia Mundi, Isabelle Faust Alexander Melnikov, Mozart Sonatas for fortepiano & violin, The Fischer duo

Classical CD Reviews: Jansons’ “Resurrection” Symphony, Harding’s Mahler Five, and Steinbacher’s Strauss

Two Mahler symphony entries: one is above average, the other a disappointment. Violinist Arabella Steinbacher delivers a first-rate and strongly recommended disc.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Review Tagged: Arabella Steinbacher, BR Klassik, Daniel Harding’s Mahler Five, Harmonia Mundi, Mariss Jansons’ Resurrection Symphony, Pentatone, Strauss

Classical CD Reviews: Mendelssohn music for Cello and Piano, Neave Trio’s French Moments, Schubert’s Octet, and Nelsons’ Shostakovich

Four new albums: the standouts include the finest Andris Nelsons/BSO Shostakovich collaboration to date and the Neave Trio’s wonderful new French Moments.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Andris Nelsons, Bridge, Chandos, Deutsche Grammophon, Harmonia Mundi, Mendelssohn music for Cello and Piano, Neave Trio’s French Moments, Schubert’s Octet, Shostakovich

Classical CD Reviews: Gardner’s Elgar, Francois-Xavier Roth’s Ravel, and Orchestral Music by Ruggles, Stucky, and Harbison

Strong discs from Edward Gardner and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Francois-Xavier Roth and his Paris-based period-instrument ensemble Les Siècles, and the National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic, an ad-hoc summer orchestra comprised of some of the U.S.’s finest conservatory musicians.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: BBC Symphony Orchestra, Chandos, Edward Gardner, Francois-Xavier Roth, Harmonia Mundi, National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic, Ravel

Classical CD Reviews: Alexander Melnikov’s Four Pianos and Leonard Bernstein’s Mass

Pianist Alexander Melnikov has come up with one of the still-young year’s most compelling discs, Deutsche Grammophon releases an aural train wreck.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Alexander Melnikov, Deutsche Grammophon, Harmonia Mundi, Leonard Bernstein's Mass

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