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Honegger: Complete Symphonies - Brogli-Sacher        (7 of 9 found this review helpful)
  April 1, 2013

I see this set seems to have attracted some bad press even before folk bothered to listen to it! After actually doing so, however, I feel they are mistaken - and, what's more, they are missing what I suspect will prove the only complete set of Arthur Honegger's symphonies ever to be released on ... more
Lutoslawski: Orchestral Works IV - Edward Gardner (Muzyka Polska VI)        (8 of 10 found this review helpful)
  March 29, 2013

Since no one has reviewed this, I thought it was worth summarising my impressions. I suppose one's musical response to this SACD will very much be dependent on your feelings about the composer. Personally, I straddle the fence I'm afraid. I love the early Lutoslawski of 50s and 60s - the Concerto ... more
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet, 1812 etc. - RPO/Simonov        (2 of 4 found this review helpful)
  March 27, 2013

We all know two things for sure about Membran/Tring recordings: 1) They are wildly variable in performance and sound quality and 2) For some reason, they didn’t believe in gaps between pieces and movements And to this, I would suggest that we can now add a corollary: 3) Seek out the various ... more
Nielsen: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3 - Davis          (12 of 14 found this review helpful)
  March 27, 2013

Here my love of Nielsen overcame my antipathy towards the 'LSO Live' sound. I wasn't going to post this as a review, but it simply got too big to insert in the discussions section. So here it is, warts 'n all. Sneak preview - I don't like this recording very much... so think of it as a public ... more
The Art of Mravinsky: Mravinsky in Moscow 1965 & 1972      (10 of 12 found this review helpful)
  March 7, 2013

How does one describe such a set, containing so many musical treasures? But also, regretfully, explicit sonic horrors... I have expressed my opinions concerning Mravinsky and the Leningrad Philharmonic before. I believe this combination to be one of the greatest music performing treasures of the ... more

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