classical music: Pierre Boulez     classical music:     Pierre Boulez      Mahler: Symphonie No.6 Gustav Mahler, Pierre Boulez, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 1995 Bludgeoned to death with an icicle This is, along with the first, Boulez's most acclaimed Mahler and it's easy to see why. Boulez is as impassioned in this vision as Bernstein was in his (and admittedly, it's all too tempting to think of Bernstein and Boulez as the Apollonian & Dionysian ...             Debussy: La Mer / Nocturnes / Jeux / Rhapsodie pour clarinette et orchestre - The Cleveland Orchestra / ... Claude Debussy, Pierre Boulez, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 1995 Best "La Mer" I've ever heard I join the throng of five-star reviews for this fabulous CD of Debussy specialties including "La Mer" and "Nocturnes". While Pierre Boulez clearly has the training, background, intuition and temperament to define these exquisite works, it is hard to imagine the bad ...             Greatest Hits HANDEL ~ Water Music, Largo, etc.. George Frideric Handel, Raymond Leppard, ... Sony, 1994 All Handel's Greatest Hits are not created equal. Nothing else tops this unusually gorgeous rendering. Leppard's is the finest conducting of Handel to this reviewers ears. Especially the Xerxes Largo and the Watermusic Hornpipes and Fireworks Oveurture tempi, legato and orchestration is full of warmth and energy. A ...             Ravel: Greatest Hits Maurice Ravel, Andrew Litton, ... Sony, 1994 Bolero aside, sheer perfection I do not like Bolero. I have never liked Bolero. I don't think I will ever enjoy Bolero. I say this only to offer a reason for my lack of mention of that piece (beyond this, obviously). In fairness, Ravel at least once described Bolero as trivial, "a piece for ...             Ravel: The Piano Concertos; Valses nobles et sentimentales Maurice Ravel, Pierre Boulez, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 1999 Peerless Ravel-Astounding, Heart Stopping I have adored the 2 Ravel Piano Concerti since high school and I have heard every existing recording of these masterpieces. Nothing compares to the interepretations of Zimmerman, especially in the Left Hand Concerto. The opening solo cadenza is truly breathtaking and ...             Mahler: Symphony No. 1 Gustav Mahler, Pierre Boulez, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 1999 Youthful Mahler Gustav Mahler is well known for his symphonies. Most know that they are usually lengthy, but there is more to it; each of his symphonies are an experience, rather than enjoying a simple artistic musical work. Mahler's sense of dramatic timing is evident in his ...             Debussy's Greatest Hits Claude Debussy, Andrew Litton, ... Sony, 1994 THIS IS THE STUFF RIGHT HERE! I BOUGHT THIS BECAUSE I WAS TRYING EXPAND MY HORIZONS, YOU KNOW? CULTURALLY AND MENTALLY, YOU KNOW? SERIOUSLY THOUGH I WAS IN THE SHOP AND I WAS HAVING A GAZE AROUND THE PLACE AND THEN THIS PICTURE JUST JUMPS OUT AT ME, AND I PICKED IT UP AND IT WAS THIS DEBUSSY CHAP ...             Bartok: Violin Concertos, Viola Concerto, 6 Duo for 2 Violins, Violin Rhapsodies; Yehudi Menuhin Yehudi Menuhin, Bela Bartok, ... EMI Classics, 2004 Beautiful music.....Bartok is my favorite....... Menuhin with his strongly creative imagination plays these concertos with characteristic nobility of feeling during much of the Hungarian dance-rhythms. There is a comparably earthy, peasant manner in Menuhin's playing of the two Rhapsodies, and it is match by ...             Leos Janacek - From the House of Dead / MCO, ASC, Boulez, Chereau (Festival Aix-en-Provence 2007) Olaf Bär, Peter Straka Deutsche Grammophon, 2008 A searing and memorable final production from Boulez and Chereau Janacek's final opera, composed in 1927-28 and given its posthumous premiere two years later, is based on the Dostoyevsky novel written in 1861-62 in which the author renders his own prison experiences. The story as seen in the opera is not presented in a linear ...             Olivier Messiaen: Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum; Chronochromie; La Ville d'en haut Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Boulez, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 1995 Messiaen's vision, via Boulez and Cleveland Oliver Messiaen was a pivotal, transitional figure in 20th century music, bridging the early Moderns and the post-war serialists. Boulez and Xenakis were both his students. His music is epic, clearly the product of a visionary. This is an essential disc of his work, ...             Classic Archive: Pierre Boulez Debussy, Schoenberg Ideale Audience Intl, 2008             Debussy - Pelléas et Mélisande Alison Hagley, Neill Archer Deutsche Grammophon, 2002 Good As It Gets Visually and musically, I cannot imagine a better production of this opera. Yet, the opera itself is depressing as hell and if you want to sit through hours of opera that never seem to end which include lies, infidelity, betrayal, incest, murder, and in which ...             Alban Berg Collection / Various (Coll) Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Sabine Meyer, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 2004 Real Estate Saver This little box is an elegant, SPACE-SAVING means of acquiring classic performances (all of them stellar) from the DG catalog of Berg's major works, including two by my adored Lasalle Quartet that I believe have recently gone OOP. The set contains eight CD's housed in ...             Debussy: Images / Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune / Printemps - The Cleveland Orchestra / Pierre Boulez Claude Debussy, Pierre Boulez, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 1993 The Too Seldom Recorded 'Printemps' Pierre Boulez may not be everyone's ideal of an impressionist conductor (think Charles Münch) but when it comes to allowing the inner ear to appreciate the intricacies of why Debussy was such a profound influence on contemporary music, Boulez (and Esa-Pekka Salonen) ...             Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms; Symphony in Three Movements Igor Stravinsky, Pierre Boulez, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 2000 THERE WAS ROOM FOR MORE By now we presumably ought to know what to expect from Boulez. His approach does not greatly suit me in Mahler, but in Stravinsky Boulez suits me down to the ground. Stravinsky changed his compositional style at various stages of his long career, but at any stage the ...          products you might be interested in   search for classical music aix-en-provence, après-midi, chronochromie, clarinette, resurrectionem, sentimentales      toavi.com    web randomly chosen book: Clone Brews: Homebrew Recipes for 150 Commercial Beers