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Audiophiles and orchestral enthusiasts alike have long cherished Paul Paray’s late-’50s/early-’60s Mercury Living Presence recordings with the Detroit Symphony devoted to French showpieces. Here, five previously available mid-price CD releases…
Paul Paray was not a conductor who happened to compose, but a real composer in the late, great French Romantic tradition. His Mass for the 500th Anniversary of the Death…
In 2005 Grotto Productions brought out a double album containing world-premiere recordings encompassing Paul Paray’s complete output for piano. I reviewed this release for Classicstoday.com, singling out the Brazilian-born pianist…
Paul Paray’s Schumann performances are exactly what you would expect, coming from this source. They’re bright, clear, peppy, neat, and elegant, without a trace of German heaviness. Paray makes an…
Born in 1886, Paul Paray’s discography, mostly for Mercury Living Presence, naturally focused on his native French repertoire, at which his mastery has long been acknowledged by music lovers and…
Because of his renown as a conductor, Paul Paray’s compositions are all but unknown, a situation that Grotto Productions has been putting right with a series of CDs surveying Paray’s…
They don’t make ’em like this anymore. No musical tradition has suffered a greater decline than the French, and no conductor represented the French school more tellingly than Paul Paray….
This series of recordings of the works of Paul Paray represents a loving tribute from Detroit, his American base of operations. I’m not sure what exactly the Assumption Grotto Orchestra…
Audiophile enhancements notwithstanding, the chief reason to acquire this disc always has been Paul Paray’s vibrant and exciting renditions of these delightful works, performed with power, precision, and panache by…
…and Paul Paray providing fantastically detailed and idiomatic accompaniments. Listen to the interplay between piano, harp, and the flute-led woodwinds in the “second subject” of the central march episode and…