Jacobs, who has issued a string of brilliant and provocative recordings on the Harmonia Mundi label, is seen here much less often, and his conducting of "Solomon," by turns opulent and intimate, humorous and savage, forbiddingly grand and envelopingly warm, was the revelation of the season.
The apparent weirdness of this reclusive genius has only added to the mystique as much as the iconoclasm of the recordings – his brilliant Bach, for sure, but also his wilfully idiotic Mozart and tortuous Beethoven.
All those early Bo Diddley recordings on Chess Records are absolutely brilliant.
Collaborating with the Venice ensemble — a superbly polished period-instrument group known for its fresh, zesty Vivaldi recordings — was also a brilliant touch.
This accounts for the "incredibly sonorous bass sound in the recordings," she said, particularly in the stunningly brilliant and continuously inventive performance of Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition".
In the nineteen-fifties, he was hailed, along with William Kapell, as one of the most brilliant American pianists of his generation; he made near-definitive recordings of the Brahms concertos with George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra.
November 11 2014 Wheeler, a brilliant musician whose inventive trumpet and flugelhorn playing and distinctive compositions graced recordings starting in the sixties and who went on to work with Dave Holland and others, died in September.
On the software plugins also, the bright channel was selected (called "Brilliant" on the ReValver AC30), all tone controls were set to 12 o'clock, and different recordings were made while varying the channel gain.
He began working with a group of n'goni players, including the brilliant Bassekou Kouyate, and the resulting album, which is believed to be similar in style to his classic early recordings, is scheduled for release in June.
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.
