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(5 out of 5 stars) "No one else has come close to Bernstein's accounts Copland's music- including Copland himself. In every respect, this is best recording of Rodeo I've heard. The tempos are, if anything, a bit on the fast side of average. The recording quality is quite good, though the woodwinds can be a bit too quiet." For Rodeo alone, this beats the competition hands down Alan Majeska | 10/07/2005 (5 out of 5 stars) "Leonard Bernstein's Columbia recording of Copland's "Rodeo" with the New York Philharmonic, made in 1960 still beats the competition hands down for sheer excitement...

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Schmidt Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra/Paavo Järvi DG 483 8336   180:32 mins (2 discs) Advertisement Is Franz Schmidtfinally securing due recognition as the last great Austrian symphonist of the late-Romantic era? The enthusiastic reception accorded to two of his symphonies at the BBC Proms over recent years certainly suggests so. I have no doubt too that his music will win over many new admirers thanks to this beautifully played and luxuriantly recorded cycle of concert performances given in Frankfurt between 2013 and 2018. Paavo Järvi is an almost ideal interpreter of this compose...

Two-hundred-fifty years ago, a musical maverick was born. Ludwig van Beethoven charted a powerful new course in music. His ideas may have been rooted in the work of European predecessors Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Josef Haydn, but the iconic German composer became who he was with the help of some familiar American values: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That phrase, from the Declaration of Independence, is right out of the playbook of the Enlightenment, the philosophical movement that shook Europe in the 18th century. "One way to look at it is what happened after Newton created t...

Exhibition at Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna celebrates Beethoven's 250th anniversary Rebecca Horn (*1944), Concert for Anarchy, 2006. Piano, hydraulic cylinder, compressor, 150 × 106 × 155 cm. Photo:© KHM-Museumsverband. VIENNA .-The Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, in cooperation with the Archive of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna, presents an unusual homage to Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), the great representative of the First Viennese School. Beethoven’s popularity remains unbroken, even 250 years after his birth. Beyond the music, his humanistic messages have influe...