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Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1 / Songs of a Wayfarer - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Bavarian Radio Symphony ...
Gustav Mahler, Rafael Kubelik, ...
Deutsche Grammophon, 1997
An amazing performance that plainly justifies its cult status!
+ Dieskau Does Mahler
+ Mahler Universal
+ Fantastic Performance, Recording Lacks Bass
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Schumann & Grieg: Piano Concertos; Leif Ove Andsnes
Leif Ove Andsnes, Edvard Grieg, ...
EMI Classics, 2003
Suspicious
+ Creative content-editing...
+ Leif ove excellent
+ Energy, youth and poetry in an unsurpassable recording
+ The Gift and the Passage of Time
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Grieg: Lyric Pieces (Performed on Grieg's Piano)
Edvard Grieg, Leif Ove Andsnes
EMI Classics, 2002
Sensitive modern pianism
+ Andsnes the piano man
+ A voyage to the coast of Norway!
Borrowing a phrase from the contemporary political philosopher Fukuyama a case can be made that the world of classical piano music has reached "the end of history". This notion is based on the often heard idea that it only takes two clicks to get superior performances of any piece worth recording ...
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Mahler: Symphony No.7
Gustav Mahler, Claudio Abbado, ...
Deutsche Grammophon, 2002
Sustained beauty and energy, moving on deliberately and purposefully ...
+ Beautiful, majestic, lyrical, spontaneous...outstanding
+ Comparison: Abbado, Chailly, and Bernstein
+ similar to CSO version, but with two big differences
+ His Chicago is better...
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Tchaikovsky: Symphonies no 4, 5, & 6 / Karajan, Berlin PO
Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Herbert von Karajan, ...
Deutsche Grammophon, 1997
The best recording of von Karajan
+ Extremely solid & well played symphonies.
+ As Mr. Welk used to say, "wonderful, wonderful."
+ Very good, but with some disappointments
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Dvorak: String Sextet; Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence
Antonín Dvorák, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, ...
EMI Classics, 2002
A must have, beautiful performance; dont let bias interfere
+ Thoroughly Captivating!
+ Two plush Romantic works get ultra-plush treatment
+ Entrancing
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Symphony No. 5
Mahler, Berlin Philharmonic
EMI Classics, 2002
This Mahler 5 simple has it all
+ Brilliant, Extremely Well Played, Great Brisk Tempos
+ A top-flight Mahler Fifth that manages to be somewht individual
+ GOOD BUT FLAWED
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection"; Rattle, Auger, Baker
Gustav Mahler, Sir Simon Rattle, ...
EMI Classics, 1990
Outstanding and thought-provoking
+ Exceptionally good!
+ A "must hear" Performance
This is an outstanding disc, even by the consistently high standards set by the rest of Simon Rattle's (now complete) Mahler series. He has lived with this symphony since his teenage years when he organised his own performance of the work. Clearly time has not staled it for him.
He sets out his ...
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Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde / Bruno Walter
Gustav Mahler, Bruno Walter, ...
Decca, 2000
One the greatest of all time.
+ If you skip the Mahler and the tenor
+ DESERVEDLY A CLASSIC BUT...
There are times when you can't let something pass. I've heard this nonsense about how Bruno Walter "didn't understand Mahler." The fact that Walter knew Mahler well and worked with him gave him far better insight into the composer than those commenting almost a century after the fact. The poetry ...
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Mahler: Symphony No. 9
Gustav Mahler, Claudio Abbado, ...
Deutsche Grammophon, 2002
A triumphant live performance to crown Abbado's Berlin years
+ Great place to start (and even end??)
+ best single disc version so far
+ Mahler as a bridge between XIX and XX centuries
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Bela Bartok: The 6 String Quartets - Emerson String Quartet
Bela Bartok
Deutsche Grammophon, 1990
A startling range of sound and beauty from the composer and realized by a brilliant quartet
+ Compositions: Outstanding! Performance: Mixed.
+ Great technique but little soul
+ Brilliant playing, but lacking color and flavor
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Paul Hindemith: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd (A Requiem for Those We Love)
William Stone, Paul Hindemith, ...
Telarc, 2002
A perfect compostion and recording
+ Impressive work by an impressive composer
+ Amazing
+ What an awesome team=Shaw, Hindemith ++Walt Whitman!
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Mahler - Symphony 10 / Berliner Philharmoniker ˇ Rattle
Gustav Mahler, Simon Rattle, ...
EMI Classics, 2000
Rawness, starkness... greatness.
+ once again, Rattle is undermined by less than great sound
+ Rattle gives the best-ever reading of the Cooke completion
+ A performance of Mahler's draft of the symphony prepared by others
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Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra; Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta; Hungarian Sketches
Bela Bartok, Fritz Reiner, ...
RCA, 1993
Essential Recordings
+ Blown Away!
+ My introduction to Bartok
+ An historic performance!
+ Only Boulez/Chicago gets 5 Stars
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Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin; Hungarian Peasant Songs; Rumanian Folk Dances
Bela Bartok, Ivan Fischer, ...
Philips, 1998
Some Rarely Recorded Bartok and a Great Mandarin
+ You Must Hear This Music
+ A less horrific Miraculous Mandarin, along with many energetic dances
+ Savage Mandarin, Delightful Dances
+ Definitive "Miraculous Mandarin" and Other Great Bartok
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