classical music: Mats Persson

classical music: Mats Persson

classical music:

Mats Persson

Mahler: The Complete Symphonies (Box Set)
Mats Persson, Johann Tilli, ...

Brilliant

Unander-Scharin: Tokfursten
Mats Persson, John Erik Eleby, ...

Caprice, 2000

Mahler: Symphony No. 8

Mats Persson, Johann Tilli, ...

Bis, 1995

The Best Mahler's 8th!
This is perhaps the best 8th I've heard...better in fact than Bernstein's impressive 1969 recording. With such a massive symphony, it's difficult to have crispness and clarity, yet Jarvi manages to achieve just that. Moreover this was recorded live! Beautifully ...

Mahler: The Complete Symphonies (Box Set)

Mats Persson, Johann Tilli, ...

Brilliant Classics, 2002

A Real Surprise
I can't imagine anything potentially deadlier than trying to put together an acceptable "complete Mahler" (1-9) with diverse oddball licensed product, especially given the blood-thirsty ferocity of Mahler performance critics and Mahler fans. The folks at Brilliant did ...

Morthenson: 1984; Ancora, meta music
Jan Morthenson, Esa-Pekka Salonen, ...

Phono Suecia, 1996

Rosell: IN BETWEEN
Lars-Erik Rosell, Erik Lundkvist, ...

Phono Suecia, 1999

Constellations

Gerry Algotsson, Johan Stern, ...

Phono Suecia, 1996

Great cd for huge saxophone ensemble!
Most of the pieces on this cd are for 11 or 18 saxophones--it's amazing how they got them all to be so precise--"Saxazione" consists of 18 saxophones, from bass to soprano saxes, though you would swear that there were sopraninos in there somewhere because they play so ...

For the Stars

Anne Sofie von Otter, Elvis Costello

Deutsche Grammophon, 2001

I LOVE this CD!
Finally, an opera singer who knows how to channel her Classical training into a sound that is, as one critic aptly described it, "what pop singers would sound like if they could actually sing"! Although Elvis Costello does not join Ms. von Otter very often in the ...