John Eliot Gardiner
Ádám Fischer’s reading of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony is breathtakingly clean.
Semyon Bychkov and the Czech Philharmonic do justice to a lot of Tchaikovsky’s orchestral music, while John Eliot Gardiner and the London Symphony play Robert Schumann’s famously-dense orchestrations with clarity. But Michael Stern’s account of The Planets completely lacks mystery.
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