Meredith grosvenor12/12/2023 ![]() On this lovely recording, the tenor Nicholas Phan performs elegant songs by both sisters, ending with Nadia’s misty, rapturous “Soir d’hiver,” a 1915 setting of her poem about a young mother abandoned by her lover.Ĭhopin: Piano Concertos Benjamin Grosvenor, piano Royal Scottish National Orchestra Elim Chan, conductor (Decca) “Clairieres: Songs by Lili and Nadia Boulanger” Nicholas Phan, tenor Myra Huang, piano (Avie)Īfter Lili Boulanger, the gifted French composer, died in 1918 at just 24, her devoted older sister Nadia suffered doubts about her own composing and turned to teaching. Scherchen’s Beethoven - like this Second Symphony with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - is fast, sleek and astonishingly detailed, as exciting as anything set down since. Not so the rereleases - above all this remastered and exceptionally bracing cycle that was eons ahead of its time when it first came out in the 1950s. The few new Beethoven symphonies released in this, his 250th birthday year, have largely offered more evidence for the drab state of interpretive tastes today. Capital Gazette eNewspaper Home Page Close Menuīeethoven: Symphonies and Overtures Vienna State Opera Orchestra and others Hermann Scherchen, conductor (Deutsche Grammophon)
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