DVD Video, Cleveland Orchestra (orchestra)
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Brahms: Academic Festival Overture, Violin Concerto & Symphony No. 4
Julia Fischer (violin)
The Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst
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Their musicianship is certainly refined: check out the suave phrasing lavished upon the famously naive melody in the third movement's trio. Yet there is robust lustre too...For all that Welser-Most... — More…
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…a wonderful performance of Bruckner's most popular symphony, delivered in what appears to be a building with ideal acoustics. …the camera-work is restrained, not restless as it so often is,... — More…
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superior production values, with next to no wandering lenses and visual images that invariably correspond to what we're hearing...As to the performance (which is very well recorded), no one... — More…
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Pierre Boulez conducts Mahler
Magdalena Kožená & Christian Gerhaher
The Cleveland Orchestra, Pierre Boulez
Magdalena Kozena is an engaging performer; a sensitive one too, who tellingly alters her expressive demeanour...while Christian Gerhaher is rather more formal in his approach, they're a nicely... — More…
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Johannes Brahms Cycle
Julia Fischer (violin), Yefim Bronfman (piano)
The Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst
When a Viennese critic writes of two of these Brahms performances 'glowing from within', something must be going right. As indeed it is in what is a lyrical and in the end surprisingly fiery... — More…
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