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Gustav Mahler - Mahler - Lieder (baritone: Christian Gerhaher, piano: Gerold Huber) -

This Mahler recital provokes comparisons with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Leonard Bernstein in many of the same songs back in 1968, and that’s already to pay the newcomer the highest of compliments. But Gerhaher’s eloquent sleeve notes take us back to Schumann and Schubert, and an approach to poetry that was...

Igor Stravinsky - Complete Music for Violin & Piano (feat violin: Anthony Marwood, piano: Thomas Ad� -

Igor Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto was premiered in 1931 by Samuel Dushkin, and given the rapport they’d established, Stravinsky was eager to cash-in on their new partnership �" literally �" by devising recitals of his music they could play together without the expense and complication of an orchestra and conductor, allowing...

Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphonies Nos 2 & 11 (Valery Gergiev; Mariinsky Orchestra and Chorus) -

This disc, the second in Valery Gergiev and his Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra’s series of Shostakovich pairings, brilliantly balances two opposing symphonies. The experimental, impish and thoroughly odd second symphony was composed to mark the 10th anniversary of the 1917 Russian revolution, while the expansive and hugely intricate 11th marries tonality...

Der Tod Und Das Madchen - Musical history is peppered with stories of luke-warm or downright disastrous premieres of now-beloved works, from riots over Stravinsky's Rite of Spring to an under-rehearsed orchestra and over-stuffed programme for Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony. The path to greatness rarely runs smoothly, it seems. So it was for Schubert's Der Tod und...

La Boheme - ''They meet, they fall in love, they split, she returns, she dies'' that's Rolando Villazn's ten-second plot summary of Puccinis La Bohme. And the obvious draw of Deutsche Grammophon's new recording of the work is its Mimi and Rodolfo, the aforementioned 'they'. But any opera recording is about more...

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi - Missa S. Emidio (feat. cond.: Claudio Abbado, orch.: Orchestra Mozart) -

One could weep to think what great works Giovanni Battista Pergolesi might have composed had he not died from tuberculosis aged just 26. That’s the cup-half-empty view, anyway. The cup-half-full view is that, despite his early death, this 18th century Italian left us a collection of musical masterpieces whose beauty,...

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