★★★★★
This is just goofy enough to be a lot of fun. The project originated with the Russian National Orchestra and its conductor, Kent Nagano, who spent time in California and there developed a reputation for innovative programming. Here, Prokofiev's classic tale of Peter and the Wolf is paired with a modern take on the story, with new music by the French composer Jean-Pascal Beintus and narration by none other than Bill Clinton...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
Listeners may be thrown by this disc, for the pairing of the gentle Friede auf Erden with the turbulent oratorio Die Jakobsleiter is quite odd. Even though these works are ostensibly linked as expressions of Schoenberg's religious mysticism, they could not be more different stylistically or emotionally. Friede auf Erden is rather close to the chromatic but tonal language Schoenberg employed in Gurrelieder, and is readily accessible to anyone acquainted with late Romanticism...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
No matter how many times you've heard Bruckner's Third and no matter how much you may or may not have liked the work in the past, you've got to hear Kent Nagano and the Deutscher-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin's recording. First, Nagano has chosen to record Bruckner's original version of the work complete with all its quotations from Wagner and it makes an enormous difference in terms of the work's coherence...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
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