The four symphonies of Robert Schumann (1810-1856) have endured more than their fair share of criticism, neglect, and mishandling over the years, particularly compared with the hallowed treatment… By ...
The French record label Naïve has released a new Beethoven Symphony cycle as a single 5-CD unit, forgoing individual releases of the symphonies, which have typically come out two to a disc, with the ...
In celebration of Lorin Maazel's tenure as Music Director, the New York Philharmonic is releasing a set of new digital recordings - The Complete Mahler Symphonies, Live - recorded at Philharmonic ...
Regular patrons of the San Francisco Symphony have known for the past few years that this set was coming, as Michael Tilson Thomas and the orchestra unveiled, one by one, live performances of the ...
On the program: Beethoven, Symphony No. 8; Symphony No. 9 ("Choral"). Justin Brown, conductor. Janice Chandler-Eteme, soprano; Margaret Jane Wray, mezzo-soprano; Jay ...
4 Cellist Seth Parker Woods to Make NY Philharmonic Debut In NY Premiere Of Nathalie Joachim's Had To Be Enter Your Email to Unlock This Article Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Charles Ives’s Symphony No 1 was not performed complete until half a century after it was started. The Symphony ...
It’s a brave orchestra, and a brave conductor, who add yet another complete Beethoven symphony cycle to the catalogue. Until recently it was the so-called “period” orchestras, i.e. those using old ...
What if Puccini had gone on to write symphonies? Composed between 1906 and 1940, the three symphonies of Alfredo Casella come with authentic Italian panache and passion. Mix in a dash of Richard ...
Everything, wrote Gerald Abraham in 1947, is calculated for the long view in Sibelius. And that's how John Storgårds conducts the great Finn's seven symphonies. There's a muscularity in Storgårds's ...