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The seven discs comprising this budget boxed set constitute the complete DG, Decca, and Westminster recordings by the Janácek Quartet, all dating from the 1950s
This SACD transfer of Anne-Sophie Mutter’s Beethoven violin sonatas, taken from a series of live recordings from 1998, does not transcend the questionable interpretations. In
It’s difficult to comprehend the A&R decision to release this particular version of Mozart’s Requiem–the second of three commercially recorded versions Herbert von Karajan made
Multichannel sound adds nothing to this unremarkable performance (for Victor Carr Jr’s original review, enter Q2959 in the search box), save for perhaps a degree
DG’s mining of its vast catalogue continues with the Original Masters series of budget-priced reissues, of which this well-filled three-disc Hans Hotter set is a
No one recording of J.S. Bach’s six Brandenburg Concertos can possibly meet every demand throughout. I suppose that’s in itself an acknowledgement of the unique
Eugen Jochum’s first Carmina Burana is a major disappointment sonically, even by 1952 audio standards. The mono recording (ignore the CD’s incorrect labeling as “stereo”)
These performances, from a 1970’s 4-LP set of Second Viennese School composers, are some of Herbert von Karajan’s finest. Here we find the conductor’s particular
Nikolai Miaskovsky’s Sixth is the most frequently performed of his 27 symphonies, although its familiarity among Western audiences remains relatively slight. A big, post-romantic work,
A set easily dispensed with: Sinopoli delivers fine performances of Symphonies 2, 3, and 5, and an exceptionally good Das Lied von der Erde (with
