★★★★★
I would say that of the three performances here on the Atlanta Symphony's own ASO label, two are excellent and one is good. The Seventh Symphony and Tapiola are the two outstanding efforts on the disc, while the Sixth, good as it is, just doesn't quite reach their lofty heights. Perhaps the tempo choices have something to do with this. The Sixth features a quite briskly paced opening movement - the fastest I know of in fact...
- www.classical.net
2014-02-13
★★★★★
For a number of reasons, this new release from the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra strikes me as extremely intelligent on non-musical grounds alone. Robert Spano's predecessor Yoel Levi recorded Symphonies 1 and 5 for Telarc with this very orchestra, as well as a fine 2nd Symphony in Cleveland on the same label. So the many fans of this great American orchestra don't have to duplicate any major works, and get to hear Spano and their hometown band in more Sibelius...
- www.classical.net
2013-12-19
★★★★★
New Music Listeners eager to know more about the music of composer Christopher Theofanidis - whose opera "Heart of a Soldier" will have its world premiere at San Francisco Opera in September - can get a savory foretaste from his Symphony No. 1. Theofanidis' great knack is to write music out of fairly familiar harmonic and rhythmic building blocks, yet have it come out sounding fresh and provocative...
- www.sfgate.com
2011-07-04
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