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RECORDING REVIEW | Shostakovich | USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra/Rozhdestvensky | "any reading would find it difficult to top the upfront and ambitious execution of the Third Symphony"

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RECORDING REVIEW | Wagner | Bulgakova & Hoteev | "...the performances are satisfying, with the Wesendonck Sonata being exemplary"

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RECORDING REVIEW | Shostakovich | Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg/Gimeno | "For a work of youthful spirit as well as public acknowledgement of the avant-garde of the time, Gimeno’s account is rather timid and distanced..."

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RECORDING REVIEW | Bruckner | Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg/Gimeno | "Never missing is a sense of Apollonian containment"

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RECORDING REVIEW | Wuorinen | Boston Symphony Orchestra/Serkin & Levine | "...the playing is clean and alert, with good tempo judgement"

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RECORDING REVIEW | Mozart | Youn | "The sheer artistic integrity gives birth to a unique form of covert intensity ... ‘poetic’ may be the best word to describe this phenomenon"

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RECORDING REVIEW | Mendelssohn | Kammerakademie Potsdam/Manacorda | "...a mixed bag"

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ESSAYS | Music and Memory Part 3: A Musical Memory

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ESSAYS | Music and Memory Part 2: The Past as Aesthetic Desire

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ESSAYS | Music and Memory Part 1: Commemoration, Thoughts of Passing