Étiquette : Symphony 3
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Kristiina Poska continues her reference recording of Beethoven’s symphonies with the Flanders Symphony Orchestra

Kristiina Poska, conducting the Flanders Symphony Orchestra, seems to have embarked on the greatest recording of Beethoven’s symphonies since Frans Brüggen, confirming this once again with a new opus featuring Symphonies Nos. 5 and 8. The first volume was devoted to Symphonies Nos. 1 and 7. It offered a brilliant interpretation of the ‘Apotheosis of…
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A legendary recording: Rudolf Kempe conducts the ideal Brahms Third in 1960

Rudolf Kempe is not the most talked-about conductor, and yet! Of course, Kempe’s name is still associated with Richard Strauss, and he was one of the greatest interpreters of his orchestral works, alongside conducting giants such as Herbert von Karajan and Fritz Reiner. The symphonic poems and symphonies were perhaps never as lively, natural, spontaneous…
