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InfoDad Reviews Manfred Honeck’s Beethoven Symphony
The InfoDad Team revels in Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony’s Beethoven Symphony No. 9 recording, giving it their highest rating! “there are near-infinite ways of presenting a symphony as crucial to all of classical music as Beethoven’s Ninth, and any recording that has something new to say is certainly entitled to say it. In the case of the performance led by Manfred Honeck and released by Reference Recordings, it happens that there is much new to…
InfoDad Review for Richmond Symphony’s Mason Bates and Vaughan Williams Recording
The InfoDad team gives their highest rating to the Richmond Symphony and Richmond Symphony Chorus’s Bates: Children of Adam; Vaughan Williams: Dona Nobis Pacem recording in a new review: “The elegant orchestration and skillful use of voices make [Vaughan Williams’s Dona Nobis Pacem] a very moving work when it is well performed, as it is on a new Reference Recordings disc featuring the Richmond Symphony Chorus and Richmond Symphony conducted by Steven Smith. Soloists Michelle Areyzaga…
Revelatory PSO Performances Make Bruckner Symphony No. 9 Fresh Again
The family review site, InfoDad reviews Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony’s Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 recording and finds it “revelatory”: “Even music that is familiar and has frequently been recorded can sometimes come across as fresh and new when performances are sufficiently revelatory – as is Manfred Honeck’s of Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Not since the days of William Steinberg has this orchestra sounded so warm, full, and emotionally evocative…
InfoDad Reviews the “Splendid” Hermitage Piano Trio Rachmaninoff Recording
The InfoDad blog gives a top-rating to the Hermitage Piano Trio’s new Rachmaninoff recording: “The two [piano] trios receive absolutely splendid readings, filled with warmth and passion and presented in exceptionally full and elegant sound, on a new Reference Recordings SACD featuring the Hermitage Piano Trio. … the group’s impassioned, deeply involving beauty of phrasing and cooperation is worthy of trios that have been around far longer. … [Trio élégiaque No. 2 ] is a brooding,…
InfoDad Reviews John Williams At The Movies
A new review from Transcentury Communications’s family-focused review site, “InfoDad” for the Dallas Winds and Jerry Junkin’s John Williams At The Movies recording: “[John] Williams…is for his film pieces that he is best known – those, plus some of his TV work, such as the Olympic Fanfare and Theme that he wrote for the 1984 Summer Olympics and that opens a very fine, very upbeat new Reference Recordings SACD featuring the Dallas Winds under Jerry Junkin.…
InfoDad Reviews Utah Symphony Mahler 1 and 8
Two Utah Symphony and Thierry Fischer Mahler Symphony reviews on the family-focused website InfoDad: Mahler Symphony No. 8 “Because of the unique sonic quality of Mahler’s music, the exceptional importance of getting both the quiet passages and the huge, noisy and sometimes deliberately crude ones right, the recording quality of Mahler performances is exceptionally important, most definitely so in the case of his Eighth, the “Symphony of a Thousand,” which really does require something close…