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Do pianists from France - well most of them; not all of course - have a particular style of playing? Does there really exist a 'school of pianism' in France? I suppose the idea's ridiculous to an extent because it implies homogeneity - an impossibility in art. From what I can gather, the...

I am hearing the Sixth Symphony [only 6:11 in] and it already feels like a good work. I like it already which is rare because I hate almost everything I listen the first time. For me then, Sallinen looks promising. What is the critical view of Sallinen? A Finnish legend like Rautavaara? A...

I am hearing this piece and it's so completely undecipherable, it's aggravating me. I can't make anything of it. There's just nothing that I can grasp. What are your views of this piece? Does it require extreme patience?

We all know and love/despise Sergiu Celibidache, the egomaniac from Romania whose many pupils inherited his invaluable teaching and failed to be quite the name of their mentors, probably because of his scathing and uncompromising standardswhich resulted in some very critial remarks that probably...

Let me say this right off the bat: I adore and worship Haitink. Much like Karajan or Herr Furtwangler or Barenboim or Bernstein. Well, numerically, I'd assign him a lower number... but, why is this relevant? Moving on, having consumed only pre-90s Brahms 4 for a good part of the past year [six...

I will admit to not liking Bruckner's Third Symphony nearly as much his First or Second. I have heard this work nearly or close to 8 times now. I don't expect myself to fall head-over-heels in love with the work suddenly. The opening is explosive. And I mean it. Close to exploding instruments...

As some of y'all may know, 'tis Herr Furtwangler Grand Month [HFGM] month. Accordingly, I plan to play the following recordings in the morning and evening later today: Without the En Saga as the disc in Membran box set does not include it. {without the prelude since in the Membran box set...

Check my earlier post for recommendations A recording by the young Thielemann [Well, compared to Karajan who was 75 at the time of his last Eroica.] with his Wiener Philharmoniker. The cycle was recorded between 2008 and 2010 in a series of live concerts. They were released on DVD, Blu-Ray...