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Stephen Vasta
Brahms & Franck: Symphonies (Pristine Audio)
One relative novelty, plus a valuable addition to Leinsdorf’s discography [SV]
Fanny & Felix Mendelssohn: Chamber works (Chandos)
Assured playing, let down by the recording [SV]
Karajan Conducts French Music (Pristine Audio)
Familiar recordings, probably skippable [SV]
Mendelssohn: Symphony No 2 , A Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture (Decca)
(Déjà Review) A level of involvement I haven’t heard from Chailly in years [SV]
Reicha & Neukomm: Quintets (Brilliant Classics)
Appealing, occasionally quirky Classical quintets [SV]
Scott: Orchestral Works Volume Three (Toccata Classics)
Appealing lighter music, when it hangs together [SV]
Beethoven: Piano Trios (Hyperion)
(Déjà Review) It’s difficult adequately to describe the essential rightness of these performances [SV]
Sperger: String Quartets (cpo)
Conventional Classical-era quartets, with some quirky details [SV]
Berlioz: L’Enfance du Christ (Hyperion)
(Déjà Review) A performance to love and to cherish [SV]
Beethoven, Berwald: Septets (BIS)
Two lovely chamber scores for strings and winds [SV]
Cunningham: Symphonies 5 & 6 (Navona)
Twentieth-century American, with its own set of highs and lows [SV]
Gyrowetz: Flute Quartets (cpo)
Solid Classical construction, and occasionally more [SV]
Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky & Varèse (BR Klassik)
Some good things, but this is only for Jansons completists [SV]
Respighi: Orchestral Works (Signum Classics)
Revival of a collection of appealing, less familiar Respighi [SV]
Bruckner: Symphony 3 (Capriccio)
Played somewhat ‘wrong,’ but much of it still right [SV]
Beethoven: The Creatures of Prometheus (cpo)
Realizes the balletic and symphonic styles, but not everything gels [SV]
Eugene Ormandy (conductor) (Testament)
An interesting document, but only the Emperor adds significantly to the discography [SV]
Krommer: Clarinet works (Brilliant)
The Quartet comes off better than the Quintet [SV]
Fréderick Franssen (horn) (Challenge)
A virtuoso hornist addresses newly discovered Baroque repertoire [SV]
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