Peter Maag conducts a delightfully fresh “Scottish” Symphony, keeping tempos moderately brisk, textures lean, and phrasing intuitive–that is, everything flows easily and logically. The first
As with many digital recordings from the early 1980s, this set of Brahms Piano Concertos, both on LP and CD, suffered from a reputation for
With the exception of his recent tepid account of Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony, Riccardo Chailly’s slowly unfolding cycle of these monumental works has earned the conductor
This disc containing performances dating from Claudio Abbado’s early, “interesting” period explores the nether-reaches of reissue absurdity. Let us assume, for the sake of argument,
What’s not to like? Assuming that you don’t have Marriner conducting these works in any of his zillion different recordings of them (not counting reissues)
There are few surprises in this complete (it includes the little Leporello/Zerlina duet) Don Giovanni. Georg Solti’s reading is certainly far more “dramma” than “giocoso”–much
Unless Vladimir Ashkenazy is at the keyboard or conducting Rachmaninov, his orchestral recordings rarely get much attention beyond some generalized praise. It is unlikely anyone
Re-listening to this set after a long period I find less to love than I once did. It offers the opera complete, including the Count’s
A home run! Chailly takes Part One “Allegro” but surely not “impetuoso”, as Mahler instructs. Problem is, only five bars into the symphony Mahler also
Oistrakh fans no doubt will own this legendary recording of the Hindemith Violin Concerto, which is making its third appearance on CD, this time paired