sun 29/09/2024

Dvořák

Classical Music CDs Round-Up 6

Leonard Bernstein latest complete Mahler is released this month: the conductor 'clearly loved Mahler nearly to death'

This month’s reviews have a heavy late-romantic bias: chamber music by Dvořák, fascinating and idiosyncratic Mahler from Bernstein and Tennstedt, and some superb recordings of Bruckner, Sibelius and Rachmaninov (or Rachmaninoff, as Gianandrea Noseda...

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Czech National Symphony Orchestra, Libor Pešek, Cadogan Hall

A young Libor Pešek:

You can't ever expect immediate liftoff from a rusty old Lada. Spluttering, shaking and rattling make up as much of the first few minutes of the experience as that of actually moving. But then, before you know it, you're halfway to Plovdiv, and you...

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