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HOWARD HANSON: SYMPHONIES NO. 3 & NO. 6 (Delos). Gerard Schwarz, one of America's most lucid and least hackneyed conductors, leads the Seattle Symphony and the New York Chamber Symphony in galvanizing interpretations of these ruggedly intense, expansive and unapologetically romantic compositions that bare Hanson's musical debt to Sibelius and Grieg...
...JEAN SIBELIUS: VIOLIN CONCERTO, KARELIA SUITE; FINLANDIA (Finlandia). Miriam Fried gives a passionate performance of the dour Finn's splendid concerto...
TCHAIKOVSKY: VIOLIN CONCERTO; SIBELIUS: VIOLIN CONCERTO (Philips). Fiddle fireworks from Viktoria Mullova...
...career (1960) to one month before he died (1982), does not mean that they're not fascinating, and sometimes even beautiful. It does mean, however, that this set is worth buying only if you either love Gould's playing, or want to listen to little-known piano music of Sibelius and Strauss...
...recorded in 1973), taken from the operas Die Meistersinger and Gotterdammerung, make for fun listening. Gould has added lots of counterpoint to the original orchestral score (in order to play all voices in the Meistersinger Prelude, Gould had to dub one take over another). In Gould's able hands Sibelius's sonatinas (recorded in 1976-7), short, sparsely-written works, receive as good a performance as they are likely ever to have on records...