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Wagner: Orchestral music - Furtwängler        (0 of 5 found this review helpful)
  July 18, 2015

This tribute to the famous German conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler via the music of Richard Wagner gathers the Overtures (The Flying Dutchman, Tannhäuser) and Preludes (Lohengrin Act I, The Master-Singers of Nuremberg Act I), as well as such orchestral pieces as The Ride of the Valkyries, Siegfried’s ... more
  July 18, 2015

With this second volume, the Liszt/Richter coupling once again subjugates us both in interpretive terms and as a “sound resurrection,” for the DSD remastering based on master tapes is stunning in its fidelity. The program is copious (nearly 80 minutes!) with Scherzo and March S.177, Mephisto Waltz ... more
Mahler: Symphony No. 9 - Fischer          (3 of 4 found this review helpful)
  July 11, 2015

Dating from 1909, the Symphony N°9 by Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) is made up of four movements. The first was described by Alban Berg as such: “The first movement is the most magnificent thing Mahler ever wrote. It is the expression of inexpressible love for this earth, the desire to live there in ... more
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé (complete ballet), Pavane - Nézet-Séguin        (4 of 6 found this review helpful)
  July 11, 2015

This SACD devoted to the famous ballet by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), Daphnis and Chloé, offers a rich vision of that which characterizes his music for orchestra: instrumental tone. As states Michel Parouty so rightly: “For Ravel, to orchestrate is to reveal the musical idea under its most luminous ... more
Szymanowski, Lyapunov, Chin, Kapustin: Etudes - Hammond        (1 of 1 found this review helpful)
  April 25, 2015

After a remarkable recording devoted to works for solo piano by Andrzej and Roxanna Panufnik (see Opus HD N°118), the pianist Clare Hammond looks into the “Étude pianistique” as a musical genre, with an original program that includes four works by four different composers. First of all, Serge ... more

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