This disc, recorded back in 1999, would appear more enterprising to us today if Lili Boulanger’s choral works were not so well represented by at
This new Plácido Domingo pop/sacred crossover album opens with a rather Disney-fied Ave Maria–a vocal arrangement of Mascagni’s “Intermezzo” from Cavalleria rusticana in which the
Releases like this make you wonder if record companies aren’t run by Hollywood moguls. Imagine that a film studio head decides his company needs a
The choice item in this second volume of Deutsche Grammophon’s budget Furtwängler/Berlin Philharmonic collection is the 1942 Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 with Edwin Fischer.
This release collects a good number of Deutsche Grammophon’s Furtwängler wartime recordings into one budget box, making them convenient as well as affordable for those
It might seem odd to pair this suave Gershwin classic with the rough-hewn music of William Russo, but the audio-tourism of An American in Paris
The pluses and minuses of this set are easily summarized: Symphony No. 1 is excellent, No. 2 very good, No. 3 dull and stodgy, and
Jagden und Formen {“Hunts and Forms”), a 51-minute concerto grosso played without pause, putatively completes Wolfgang Rihm’s odyssey on the subject of musical form. Since
This Panorama release pairs two of the choice items from Bernstein’s live Beethoven series, circa 1979-81. The Symphony No. 9, from his complete Vienna Philharmonic
Maurizio Pollini is, of course, one of the great pianists of our age, and while like all great artists he achieves varying results on recordings,