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Eight years after recording the first book of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier on the clavichord in 1959, Ralph Kirkpatrick turned to the instrument again for Book
A classic! Fricsay’s “New World” remains one of the most passionate and spontaneous available. Its noteworthy features include a really dramatic opening movement, a gorgeously
Once you get used to Renato Capecchi’s Figaro, which sounds as if he’s on speed (he’s almost menacing in his perkiness at times), there’s much
The best moments in this performance come early in the opera and are the ones most of us tend not to pay much attention to:
Maurizio Pollini’s first solo Schumann release in many a moon offers the Third Sonata, better known as the Concerto Without Orchestra, in its rarely heard,
This isn’t a completely successful Bruckner Fifth, but it is an interesting one. The biggest problems occur in the first movement, where Sinopoli executes what
It seems that we are supposed to take John Williams, one of the greatest and most successful film composers, seriously. This disc has two examples,
Recorded in 1994 and released in 2001 (so far only in Japan), this Shostakovich Fourth is all that exists of what originally was announced as
The return of this important recording to the catalog as a mid-priced reissue is to be warmly welcomed. The performances by the father/daughter partnership of
John Eliot Gardiner makes heavy weather of Bruckner’s D minor Mass, an already weighty work that in this performance won’t win many new adherents, even
