Tag: Jean Sibelius
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11 Famous Cathedral Organs
Bolt down your furniture! Alto’s newest organ anthology brings together superb recordings of eleven of England’s most awe-inspiring instruments played by many of the instrument’s leading artists, captured in spectacular sound, including the first release in any format of Catherine Ennis’s recording of Joseph Jongen’s virtuoso Sonata on the 94th Psalm.
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Throwback MusicWeb International Review for Abravanel and Utah Symphony’s Complete Sibelius
MusicWeb International‘s Ralph Moore has a newly published review for the Musical Concepts label release of the Complete Jean Sibelius Symphonies from Maurice Abravanel and the Utah Symphony! “Still available on the Musical Concepts label, this super-bargain set remastered in excellent analogue sound offers all seven of Sibelius symphonies on three CDs such that you…
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Ginette Neveu Plays Sibelius Concerto & Violin Treasures
At age 15, violinist Ginette Neveu achieved worldwide celebrity status when she won one of the most famous music contests of all time – the 1935 Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition, whose second- and third-place winners were two other legends of the instrument, David Oistrakh and Henri Temianka. Over the next fourteen years – until her…
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Sibelius: Music for the Theatre
“no (others) are more idiomatic, and the programme here makes for an enjoyable and generous concert…. King Christian …with some particulary expressive string playing…and Karelia ..share of excitement…Vivid sound” (Penguin Guide) “Tjeknavorian is a serious and thoughtful [Sibelius] interpreter… we [do not] find him trying to score interpretative points or playing to the gallery” (Gramophone)
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Piano Music: 28 Miniatures
“a sympathetic and sensitive guide to this repertoire …. well recorded. She produces a wide range of keyboard colour and a good dynamic range. On the whole the set makes a clear first choice in this repertoire” (Penguin Guide 3 stars) “She is not one of the bash and glitter school. Her approach reaches the…
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Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 7 – Sir Colin Davis, LSO
“What makes Davis’s Sibelius compelling is that he manages to have it both ways. He gives these fine players the encouragement to turn individual passages into moments of spine-tingling magic …But he never loses sight of the bigger objective, which is to pull together, bit by bit, the seemingly disparate themes … I doubt whether…
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Tchaikovsky & Sibelius Violin Concertos
(Tchaikovsky) “warm, relaxed and romantic, has the right degree of restraint in the obvious lyrical moments … it is completely convincing” (Sibelius) “Oistrakh in the Sibelius concerto is of course to be recommended – this is a fine bargain, especially as Ormandy, too, is in excellent form … the Philadelphia strings are both very strong…
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Serenata: A Bouquet of Favorites for Strings
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Grieg & Sibelius Favourites
I enjoyed this (Mackerras) record very much indeed, for its excellent performances, and for its variety, sensibly arranged to afford the greatest enjoyment -a good blend of the very familiar and the less well known….Mackerras is as sympathetic to such things as the Grieg Elegiac Melodies as he is effective with Finlandia. Sibelius’ beautiful Elegy…
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Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 5
“eminently recommendable account of Sibelius’s Second…. good, well-chosen tempos and no want of tenderness at the Andante sostenuto theme…. Mackerras holds the structure together“ -Gramophone “Sibelians need this disc. Schmidt’s Fifth could easily stand as the only version in someone’s collection” Rob Barnett, MusicWeb International “Ole Schmidt’s excellent Nielsen symphonies cycle long made me want…
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Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 1-7 (Complete)
“Still available on the Musical Concepts label, this super-bargain set remastered in excellent analogue sound offers all seven of Sibelius symphonies on three CDs such that you don’t have to change CD mid-symphony. … Rob Barnett favourably reviewed this on MWI in its original Vanguard Records release back in the year 2000 and although he…
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ROSAND: Aaron Rosand Plays Violin Romances & Heifetz Transcriptions
