Romantic Dynamics

Yannick Nezet Seguin, Lisa Batiashvili, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra - Tchaikovsky Pathetique (2014) {Deutsche Grammophon}
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Classical / Symphony

Yannick Nézet-Séguin's first symphonic recording with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra on Deutsche Grammophon is of Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B minor, "Pathétique," which the conductor has known intimately throughout his career. Due to his familiarity with the music, this is a solid reading that holds its own against the large number of recordings of this symphony, so listeners who need a first-rate version can be assured of the interpretation and the performance. Yet because this is one of the most frequently recorded classical pieces of all time, one may wonder what Nézet-Séguin brings to it that makes his rendition necessary.

Turning 90 in December 2013, Menahem Pressler was the pianist of the legendary Beaux Arts Trio for almost 55 years, and continues to enjoy a blossoming career as soloist and recitalist, while remaining as committed to teaching as ever. For the greater part of his life, Pressler has lived with the two great sonatas recorded here, and has recounted how he studied Beethoven’s Sonata in A flat major, Op.110 as a young man after having fled Nazi Germany for Israel in 1939: ‘I didn't really understand many of the things that I understand now. I only understood the enormous emotional… tearing, tearing on my insides…’

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No 3; J. S. Bach/Mahler Suite - Petra Lang mezzosoprano; Netherlands Children's Choir; Philharmonic Choir;
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra; Riccardo Chailly - conductor
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Publisher: Decca

Here we have not only the (now "Royal") Concertgebouw ensemble in all of its idiomatic glory, magnificently recorded, but also Chailly at his most interpretively perceptive–and the result is absolutely stunning… As a bonus, Mahler's Bach Suite also receives its finest performance on disc. David Hurwitz
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Riccardo Chailly's Mahler cycle with a sonically spectacular performance of the Third. It also brings nearer the end of his tenure in Amsterdam with the great Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra whose tradition he has maintained while overlaying it with a fine dedication to new music. This is a deeply impressive interpretation with an intriguing coupling. Gramophone

The two large-scale works by Dvořák and Smetana are complemented here by the one- movement Elegy, by Josef Suk, Dvořák’s student and later son-in-law. Formed in 2007, the Sitkovetsky Trio performs worldwide and has received numerous awards and critical acclaim, but is here making its début on disc, in a programme perfectly suited to the ensemble’s virtuosic and impassioned music-making.

The Budapest String Quartet Plays Beethoven - The Complete String Quartets (2010) [8CD Set] {Sony Classical Masters}
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Classical / Chamber Music

Stereo recordings from the early 1960s. Everyone has sentimental favorites, and this set is one of mine. Yes, the ensemble has a few rough spots now and again—nothing serious—but the playing has such warmth and emotional generosity, that bigness of spirit that’s so often forgotten in today’s Beethoven performances. The Budapest Quartet clearly frames its view of the composer in terms of the great, late quartets. So Op. 18, cultured and intelligent thought it is, could do perhaps with a touch more energy in spots, a leaner basic sonority. But once we hit the great middle quartets it’s smooth sailing right through to the end.

Leif Ove Andsens: Horizons - A Pesonal collection of Piano Encores – works by Sibelius, Skrabin, Mendelssohn, R. Strauss, Bach,
Mompou, Chopin, Debussy, Liszt, Shostakovich, Albeniz, Grieg, Smetana, Ibert etc.
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Publisher: EMI Classics

Editorial Reviews - Amazon.com
A great player can give meaning and substance even to lightweight miniatures… Andsnes' brilliant, captivating performance will induce smiles of admiration and pleasure as well as a new respect for this versatile and colorful repertoire. – Edith Eisler