Regular patrons of the San Francisco Symphony have known for the past few years that this set was coming, as Michael Tilson Thomas and the orchestra unveiled, one by one, live performances of the ...

Emulating Brahms himself with an orchestra of fewer than 50 players, these fresh, engaging recordings show that less can mean a lot more Though these days we generally hear the Brahms symphonies ...

Do we need another set of Tchaikovsky symphonies? More to the point, do we need them from the little known Melbourne Symphony Orchestra? Having listened and re-listened to these live recordings, the ...

The conductor and his orchestra express the transcendental immensity of Ives, especially in a glorious Fourth Symphony Before normal concert life ground to a halt in March, one of Gustavo Dudamel’s ...

The four symphonies of Robert Schumann (1810-1856) have endured more than their fair share of criticism, neglect, and mishandling over the years, particularly compared with the hallowed treatment… By ...

On the program: Beethoven, Symphony No. 8; Symphony No. 9 ("Choral"). Justin Brown, conductor. Janice Chandler-Eteme, soprano; Margaret Jane Wray, mezzo-soprano; Jay ...

The French record label Naïve has released a new Beethoven Symphony cycle as a single 5-CD unit, forgoing individual releases of the symphonies, which have typically come out two to a disc, with the ...

Symphony No. 1 Claudio Abbado, Conductor Felix Mendelssohn, Composer London Symphony Orchestra Octet for strings, Movements: Scherzo (Allegro leggierissimo) London Symphony Orchestra Claudio Abbado, ...

It’s a brave orchestra, and a brave conductor, who add yet another complete Beethoven symphony cycle to the catalogue. Until recently it was the so-called “period” orchestras, i.e. those using old ...

Everything, wrote Gerald Abraham in 1947, is calculated for the long view in Sibelius. And that's how John Storgårds conducts the great Finn's seven symphonies. There's a muscularity in Storgårds's ...

Symphony No. 1 Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Hannu Lintu, Conductor Jean Sibelius, Composer Symphony No. 2 Jean Sibelius, Composer Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Hannu Lintu, Conductor Symphony ...