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Classical CD Reviews: George Li plays Tchaikovsky, Jansons conducts Shostakovich, and Andris Nelsons conducts BSO premieres

Classical CD Reviews: George Li plays Tchaikovsky, Jansons conducts Shostakovich, and Andris Nelsons conducts BSO premieres

Terrific, fiery playing from George Li, one of the most compelling young pianists on the scene; Mariss Jansons’ recording of Shostakovich’s Tenth trudges from start to finish; irrefutable proof of Andris Nelsons’ excellence as a new-music conductor.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Andris Nelsons, BR Klassik, George Li, Mariss Jansons, Naxos, Warner Classics

Classical CD Reviews: Offenbach’s “La Périchole,” Aaron Jay Kernis’ Orchestral Works, and Baiba Skride plays Bartók

Classical CD Reviews: Offenbach’s “La Périchole,” Aaron Jay Kernis’ Orchestral Works, and Baiba Skride plays Bartók

Marc Minkowski’s recording of Jacques Offenbach’s La Périchole pays the composer a handsome tribute in his birthday year; violinist Baiba Skride’s new all-Bartók disc is one of the year’s best.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Aaron Jay Kernis, Baiba Skride, Bru Zane, La Périchole, Marc Minkowski, Naxos, Orfeo

Classical CD Reviews: Julia Wolfe’s “Fire in my mouth,” Donnacha Dennehy’s “The Hunger,” Derek Bermel’s “Migrations”

Classical CD Reviews: Julia Wolfe’s “Fire in my mouth,” Donnacha Dennehy’s “The Hunger,” Derek Bermel’s “Migrations”

Julia Wolfe’s Fire in my mouth is one of 2019’s most memorable recordings; Donnacha Dennehy’s The Hunger, a meditation on the Irish potato famine of the mid-19th-century, leaves an indelible impression; Derek Bermel’s Migrations is a grand celebration of one of America’s great living composer at the top of his game.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Decca Classics, Derek Bermel, Donnacha Dennehy, Fire in my mouth, Julia Wolfe, Migrations, Naxos, Nonesuch, The Hunger

Opera Review: A Sumptuous New Recording of Korngold’s “The Miracle of Heliane,” Centerpiece of This Summer’s Bard Music Festival

Opera Review: A Sumptuous New Recording of Korngold’s “The Miracle of Heliane,” Centerpiece of This Summer’s Bard Music Festival

Once much-performed, then banished from the stage by the Nazis, The Miracle of Heliane, now available in a fine new recording, is perhaps the best opera by the man who would become one of Hollywood’s leading composers.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Bard Music Festival, Das Wunder der Heliane, Eric Wolfgang korngold, Naxos

Classical CD Reviews: François Xavier-Roth conducts Berlioz, Yan Pascal Tortelier conducts Gounod, and JoAnn Falletta conducts Respighi

Classical CD Reviews: François Xavier-Roth conducts Berlioz, Yan Pascal Tortelier conducts Gounod, and JoAnn Falletta conducts Respighi

A freshly thought through, energetically executed Berlioz disc; a lovely album that contains excellent performances of underperformed and unfamiliar repertoire that deserves to be heard and championed; a fine, sometimes inspired account of Respighi.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Chandos, Harmonia Mundi, Naxos

Classical Music CD Reviews: Juan de Arriaga’s Orchestral Music, Lortzing Overtures, and Boieldieu’s Piano Concerto et al.

Classical Music CD Reviews: Juan de Arriaga’s Orchestral Music, Lortzing Overtures, and Boieldieu’s Piano Concerto et al.

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By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Chandos, CPO, Naxos

Classical CD Reviews: Florence Price’s Symphonies nos. 1 & 4, George Antheil’s Symphonies nos. 3 & 6, and 20th-century Russian Orchestral Music

Classical CD Reviews: Florence Price’s Symphonies nos. 1 & 4, George Antheil’s Symphonies nos. 3 & 6, and 20th-century Russian Orchestral Music

Fine recordings of symphonies by neglected American composers Florence Price and George Antheil; and a curious album from Cornelius Meister and the ORF Radio-Sinfonieorchester Wien.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Capriccio, Chandos, Cornelius Meister, Florence Price, George Antheil, Naxos, ORF Radio-Sinfonieorchester Wien

Classical CD Reviews: JoAnn Falletta conducts Schreker, Manfred Honeck conducts Beethoven & Strauss, and Baiba Skride’s “American Concertos”

Classical CD Reviews: JoAnn Falletta conducts Schreker, Manfred Honeck conducts Beethoven & Strauss, and Baiba Skride’s “American Concertos”

JoAnn Falletta’s recording of Schreker’s orchestral works is fantastic; Manfred Honeck and his Pittsburgh Symphony make Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony shocking again, and Baiba Skride proves a strong advocate for Miklós Rózsa’s Violin Concerto.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: American Concertos, Baiba Skride, Beethoven & Strauss, JoAnn Falletta, Manfred Honeck, Naxos, Orfeo, Reference Recordings, Schreker

Classical CD Review: Vänskä’s Mahler Six, Harding’s Mahler Nine, Louise Farrenc Symphonies, Handel & Haydn Society plays Haydn and Mozart

Classical CD Review: Vänskä’s Mahler Six, Harding’s Mahler Nine, Louise Farrenc Symphonies, Handel & Haydn Society plays Haydn and Mozart

Two Mahler symphonies, one sluggish the other intense, while symphonies composed by Louise Farrenc, Mozart, and Haydn are done right.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Bis, Coro, Daniel Harding, Handel & Haydn Society, Harmonia Mundi, Haydn and Mozart, Louise Farrenc Symphonies, Mahler Nine, Mahler Six, Naxos, Osmo Vänskä

Classical CD Reviews: Barenboim plays Sciarrino, Berio, Tartini, and Paganini and Alsop’s Complete Bernstein

Classical CD Reviews: Barenboim plays Sciarrino, Berio, Tartini, and Paganini and Alsop’s Complete Bernstein

Violinist Michael Barenboim is an exceptional young musician with a famous name who stands on his own two feet.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Music, Review Tagged: accentus, Leonard Bernstein, Marin-Alsop, Michael Barenboim, Naxos

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