Thomas Fasano

Tom Fasano has been writing reviews of classical music recordings for the past quarter century. He's finally making them public on this blog.
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Tennstedt Mahler Fifth and Das Lied

# Tennstedt’s Mahler: The Authority of Long Acquaintance The reissue of Klaus Tennstedt’s 1978 Fifth Symphony and…

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Mozart Symphonies – Iona Brown and St Martin Academy

Mozart Symphonies with a Gentle Touch Iona Brown’s approach to these two Mozart symphonies—the B flat K319…

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Machaut and Trouvères – Bonnardot Ensemble on Calliope

Machaut and the Trouvères: A Misleading Title for an Otherwise Captivating Journey Guillaume de Machaut et l’art…

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Holmboe: Environmental Preludes and Chamber Works

Holmboe’s Environmental Elegies Vagn Holmboe’s final decade saw him turning—unexpectedly, perhaps—to nature. Not the Romantic sublime, mind…

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Haydn Quartets Op. 64 by The Lindsays

The Lindsays in Haydn: Craft and Conviction These three quartets from Op. 64—written between 1787 and 1790,…

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Beethoven Sonatas by Ramzi Yassa – Control Without Fire

# Yassa’s Beethoven: Control, Elegance, and the Question of Fire LISZT Six Lieder von Goethe BEETHOVEN Sonata…

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Handel Coronation Anthems – Cleobury and Kings College

Handel’s Royal Music in Regal Surroundings Stephen Cleobury knows something about pageantry. After all, he’s spent decades…

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Liadov Orchestral Works – Slovak Philharmonic

Liadov: Orchestral Works Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra / Stephen Gunzenhauser Naxos 8.555242 [58:05] The historical irony still stings…

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Handel Saul – Neumann and Collegium Cartusianum

Handel: Saul HWV 53 Gregory Reinhart (Saul), Matthias Koch (David), John Elwes (Jonathan), Vasilijka Jezovsek (Michal), Simone…

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Handel Concerti Grossi by Boyd Neel Orchestra 1936-38

Handel’s Concerti Grossi Through the Lens of Pioneering Modernism Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 6 Boyd Neel Orchestra…