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I consider myself quite familiar with Mahler 6 having collected multiple performances on rbcd over the years including Tilson-Thomas/San Fran, Inbal/Frankfurt, Szell/Cleveland, and Boulez, Vienna; the Boulez is still my favorite by far. I was fortunate to hear the work performed live too.
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This time not much to add to Castors perfect decription of the ideal companion disc to Beartons Lut disc.They even offer lower postage for 2?.Its near impossible to buy actually in Poland from my
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Who needs another Richard Strauss tone poem.? We do. or Did. I doubt if anyone ... more |
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Site review by ramesh May 1, 2008
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This innovative piano recital features Beethoven's last piano sonata. The programme concludes with early works by the three seminal figures of what has come to be known as the 'Second Viennese School'. The Webern items are a sequence for violin and piano. For those unfamiliar with these latter ... more |
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As with his other discs, Thomas Günther provides eloquent and passionate advocacy for a composer of whom few will have heard the name, let alone his music. Unlike many of Cybele's 20th Century releases, this is relatively enjoyable on an emotional as well as intellectual level. The biggest reason ... more |
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This contains two world première recordings (and performances); Georg Friedrich Haas' Hyperion (2006) and Jörg Widmann's Zweites Labryinth (2006).
The larger piece by far is the Haas, written as a "concerto for light and orchestra". This might strike listeners as odd - how can anyone hear light? ... more |
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