DVD Video, Cleveland Orchestra (orchestra)
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Their musicianship is certainly refined: check out the suave phrasing lavished upon the famously naive melody in the third movement's trio. Yet there is robust lustre too...For all that Welser-Most... —
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Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45
Hanna-Elisabeth Müller (soprano), Simon Keenlyside (baritone)
Wiener Singverein & The Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst
It is the quality of humble devotion so germane to the work that distinguishes the sober but never staid conducting of Franz Welser-Möst. Pacing is well-nigh perfect…there are no extras, and... —
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The Cleveland Orchestra: Centennial Concert
Lang Lang (piano)
Centennial Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst
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superior production values, with next to no wandering lenses and visual images that invariably correspond to what we're hearing...As to the performance (which is very well recorded), no one... —
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Pierre Boulez conducts Mahler
Magdalena Kožená & Christian Gerhaher
The Cleveland Orchestra, Pierre Boulez
Magdalena Kozena is an engaging performer; a sensitive one too, who tellingly alters her expressive demeanour...while Christian Gerhaher is rather more formal in his approach, they're a nicely... —
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Brahms: Academic Festival Overture, Violin Concerto & Symphony No. 4
Julia Fischer (violin)
The Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst
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…a wonderful performance of Bruckner's most popular symphony, delivered in what appears to be a building with ideal acoustics. …the camera-work is restrained, not restless as it so often is,... —
