Munich Radio Orchestra reviews
Pētēris Vasks: Musica Serena; Musica Dolorosa, etc
Munich Radio Orchestra/Ivan Repušić, et al (BR Klassik)
Hahn: L'Île du rêve
Hélène Guilmette, Cyrille Dubois, et al; Concert Spirituel Choir; Munich Radio Orchestra/Hervé Niquet (BruZane)
Reinecke - Orchestral Works, Vol. 1
Munich Radio Orchestra/Henry Raudales (CPO)
The Verdi Album: Arias from Il Trovatore, Luisa Miller, Attila, et al
Sonya Yoncheva; Munich Radio Orchestra/Massimo Zanetti (BR Klassik)
Bruch: Die Loreley
Michaela Kaune, Magdalena Hinterdobler, Danae Kontora, Thomas Morhr et al; Prague Philharmonic Choir; Munich Radio Orchestra/Stefan Blunier (CPO)
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in D minor; String Symphonies Nos 1-6
Munich Radio Orchestra/Henry Raudales (BR Klassik)
Dreamtime
Emmanuel Pahud (flute); Munich Radio Orchestra/Ivan Repušić (Warner Classics)
Giocomo Puccini's La rondine
There are lovely moments in this live recording of La rondine, a curiously level-headed reworking of La traviata in which hearts are bruised rather than broken. Ivan Repušić coaxes playing with plenty of spring and succulence from the Munich Radio Orchestra. The Act II dance music is glossy and animated, but the dewy scoring at the close of Act III seems unmerited by a dry-eyed situation. Coloristic fragments such as ‘Nella trepida luce d’un mattin’ are more moving in context than ‘Chi il bel sogno di Doretta’.