Special offer. Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 5 & The Nutcracker
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, Roger Norrington
Norrington's vibrato-less Tchaikovsky is contentious but viscerally exciting. All in all, with a neatly characterised studio-recorded Nutcracker Suite as fill-up, Norrington's interpretation...
Special offer. Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 5 & The Nutcracker
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, Roger Norrington
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Norrington's vibrato-less Tchaikovsky is contentious but viscerally exciting. All in all, with a neatly characterised studio-recorded Nutcracker Suite as fill-up, Norrington's interpretation...
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Sir Roger Norrington is 75 this year and as part of the celebrations Haenssler is pleased to present this CD with Sir Roger and his Stuttgart orchestra playing two of the most popular pieces of music in the repertoire.
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Awards and reviews
August 2009
Norrington's vibrato-less Tchaikovsky is contentious but viscerally exciting. All in all, with a neatly characterised studio-recorded Nutcracker Suite as fill-up, Norrington's interpretation of the Fifth does not incontrovertibly make the case that vibrato is necessarily an evil modern excrescence, but its positive virtues are worth considering.
