| Label: NAXOS Catalog: 8570568 Format: CD Liverpool Philharmonic; Vasily Petrenko;Gramophone Award Winner - Orchestral 2009
Wholenote Discoveries - March 2009
For many classical music lovers who listen to FM radio, WBEN-FM is the station of choice. I listen to it in my car and recently I heard, not on the same day, outstanding performances of two long time favourites, Tchaikovsky’s Manfred Symphony and Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances, opus 45. I sat in my driveway waiting for the extros to identify the recordings. As it turned out, they were both Naxos discs! The Tchaikovsky was played by the Liverpool Philharmonic under Vasily Petrenko and the Rachmaninov featured the Royal Philharmonic conducted by Enrique Batiz. I acquired both discs and found them to be all that I expected both in the high octane performances and wide-open, dynamic sound. I recommend them enthusiastically. Bruce Surtees Price: $19.98 |