DVD Video, Boston Symphony Orchestra (orchestra)
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Special offer. Charles Munch conducts Wagner, Franck & Fauré
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch
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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Special offer. Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66
Phyllis Curtin (soprano), Nicholas Di Virgilio (tenor), Tom Krause (baritone)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf
Although visually showing its age, the stereo sound on this broadcast of the American premiere of the War Requiem sounds remarkably fresh and vivid, and Leinsdorf is authoritative. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2008, DVD of the Month
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Special offer. Michael Tilson Thomas conducts Ives, Sibelius & Wagner
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas
This vintage music-making, captured in slightly faded colour, limited camera angles (big on music stands) and sound officially described as 'enhanced mono', is well worth exploring. — 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…
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Bernstein at 100
The Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood
Nadine Sierra (soprano), Kian Soltani (cello), Isabel Leonard (Maria), Jessica Vosk (Anita), Tony Yazbeck (Tony), Thomas Hampson (baritone), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Jessica Zhou (harp), Susan Graham (mezzo), Audra McDonald (soprano)
Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons,...
The Tanglewood Festival Chorus raise the roof, with help from soloists Nadine Sierra and Susan Graham…The love for Lenny really comes through in these performances…The production is served well... — More…
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Leinsdorf is efficient in Mahler's First Symphony and Till Eulenspiegel — More…
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Some of the earliest extant footage of Tennstedt with the Boston Symphony in a superb Bruckner Symphony No. 7, monumental yet warm, with terrific momentum in the faster parts. — More…
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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…
