Posts Tagged ‘Sony Classical’
Monday, October 16th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: October 16, 2017 MUNICH — Sony has released a remarkable recording of Brahms’s Magelone-Romanzen, Op. 33, complete with Zwischentexte prepared by German author Martin Walser. Christian Gerhaher sings the fifteen songs and recites two of the other three poems (the 1st, 16th and 17th) from Ludwig Tieck’s 1797 narrative not set […]
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Tags: Bayerischer Rundfunk, BR Klassik, Brahms, CD, Christian Gerhaher, Commentary, Die schöne Magelone, Gerold Huber, Kritik, Magelone-Romanzen, Martin Walser, Review, Sony Classical, Tieck
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Tuesday, September 19th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: September 19, 2017 ELMAU — His website left the program as vague as “Beethoven and Shostakovich” right up until the recital, but Igor Levit knew exactly what he wanted to do Aug. 14 in the timber-framed auditorium of this isolated castle-spa below the Wettersteinwand. An aural onslaught was in the offing. […]
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Tags: Beethoven, Elmau, Igor Levit, Kritik, Opus 87, Piano, Review, Schloss Elmau, Shostakovich, Sony Classical, Waldstein Sonata
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Sunday, December 22nd, 2013
By ANDREW POWELL Published: December 22, 2013 MUNICH — Somewhere between the patent introspection of his new Mompou CD* and the tags of his early Stateside career — “big bravura pianist,” “new Horowitz” — lies an accurate description of Arcadi Volodos. It may simply be this: German Romantic, as in Schumann and Brahms, with impressionist […]
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Tags: Alexei Volodin, Antonio Gaudí, Arcadi Volodos, Bell’Arte, Brahms, CD, Jeunes filles au jardin, Kinderszenen, Mompou, München, Munich, Música callada, Piano, Prinz-Regenten-Theater, Review, Riccardo Chailly, Scènes d’enfants, Schubert, Schumann, Sony Classical
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