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This first-rate collection has no weak links at all: Karajan’s La Mer, Tilson Thomas’ Boston Symphony recording of Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun,
Only two reasons seem logical for a record company to make a second recording of an artist in a particular work: the artist’s interpretation/insight changed
There would seem only two logical reasons for a record company to make a second recording of an artist in a particular work: the artist’s
Claudio Abbado’s new recording of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony is at once mesmerizing and frustrating. As a performance (recorded live in Berlin in September 1999), it
Twenty years have elapsed since Claudio Abbado’s first Mahler Third appeared, a recording lauded (largely by the British press) chiefly for the (not very compelling)
Apparently Alexander-Sergei Ramírez is incapable of eliciting the slightest ugly sound from his guitar. In the three-movement composition La Catedral that opens his all-Barrios recital,
Here’s a well-curated and splendidly remastered four-CD overview of Andrés Segovia’s recordings for American Decca. Disc 1 features concertos tailored to Segovia’s singular artistry, including
Herbert von Karajan lays it on thick in this 1964 German Requiem. This combination of sluggish tempos (the exceptions are Denn alles Fleisch and Wie
Take away the dangerous radical politics, the embarrassingly limiting declarations of who can and cannot compose, and the legend of the enfant terrible that has
This, Karl Böhm’s only studio recording of one of the jewels in his conductorial crown, indeed is a gem of a performance. His tempos are
