DVD Video, Boston Symphony Orchestra (orchestra)
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Munch was noted for his performances of French music and the [Franck] is treasure indeed...searing, warm-blooded and slightly brisker than Monteux's benchmark recording made the same year with... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - DVD Performance
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Tanglewood 75th Anniversary Celebration
RecommendedPeter Serkin (piano), Yo-Yo Ma (cello & director), Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Emanuel Ax (piano), James Taylor (vocals & guitar)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Boston Pops Orchestra, Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, David Zinman, Keith Lockhart, Andris Nelsons,...
If this all sounds rather eclectic, well, yes it is – but it all hangs together beautifully as a celebration of the festival’s diversity and joie de vivre. The performance styles, too, come... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd July 2013
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Boston Symphony Orchestra & Erich Leinsdorf play Schubert & Schumann
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf
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he conveys a natural, relaxed, humane demeanour that justifies the nature of his physical activity...he shows himself to be a musician with both considerable expressive range and a direct, unaffected... — More…
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Precise yet expressive, Steinberg's Beethoven Symphonies Nos 7 & 8 are models of clarity and rhythmic dynamism. The Haydn is excellent. — More…
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Leinsdorf is efficient in Mahler's First Symphony and Till Eulenspiegel — More…
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Leinsdorf deploys a bizarre praying mantis manner on the podium that nonetheless unleashes playing as lustrous as the Symphony Hall acoustic itself. — More…
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Klaus Tennstedt conducts Mahler & Mozart
Symphony Hall, Boston, 15 January 1977
Phyllis Bryn-Julson (soprano)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Klaus Tennstedt
Cherishable 1977 performances from one of the last of the 'old school' of conductors, seen here at the top of his game, relishing every moment as though it might be his last. — More…
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Some of the most expert playing here comes in the Beethoven Symphonies, in which strings demonstrate effortless synchronisation and winds pass phrases between one another seamlessly....[Munch]... — More…