Tag: classical
Album review: Yevgeny Svetlanov/USSR Symphony Orchestra – Tamara, etc.
This is a historically interesting record with some good (if not truly great) examples of the golden age of Russian classical music, but ASD 3066…
Album review: Gryphon – Red Queen to Gryphon Three
Intriguing, beguiling, often beautiful—but is beautiful good enough? Genre: Progressive rock/contemporary classical Country: United Kingdom Release date: December 1974 Label: Bell Records Format: 12” vinyl…
Album review: Ludwig van Beethoven/Bruno Walter – Symphony No. 6
The Sixth Symphony may never escape the shadow of the Third, Fifth, and Ninth, but is still a taboo-breaking, musically innovative landmark that helped bury…
Album review: Antal Dorati/Igor Stravinsky – The Rite of Spring
The marriage of Apollo and Dionysus is a happy one indeed. Genre: Classical (late Romantic/early Modernist) Country: United States Release date: 1960 (reissued on vinyl…
Album review: Dhafer Youssef – Birds Requiem
Album review: Dhafer Youssef – Birds Requiem Sometimes real truth can only be seen from the outside looking in. Genre: Chamber jazz/world fusion/contemporary classical Country:…
Album review: Sibelius/Ormandy/Philadelphia Orchestra – Four Legends from the Kalevala
A swan sings in the twilight of the Golden Age of classical records. Genre: Classical (late Romantic) Country: United States Release date: 1979 (reissued ca.…