classical music: documentation

classical music: documentation

classical music:

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Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 (with the Documentation of the Finale Fragment) [Hybrid SACD]

Anton Bruckner, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, ...

RCA, 2003

Terrific performance!
The symphony recording is damn good, and the extras are very interesting (to hear Harnoncourt speaking German and English, to hear the sketches of the last movement). In my mind, this ranks among the very best -- with Celibidache on EMI, Giulini on DG, Bernstein on DG, ...

Béla Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta; Divertimento for String Orchestra

Bela Bartok, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, ...

RCA, 2004

new views on these great works
OK, Harnoncourt took his time to get round to recording Bartok but for me the results have been well worth it. Getting my score out I notice that Harnoncourt's tempi are on the slow side but should this really be an issue when composers regularly mistime their own ...