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This disc offers about an hour’s worth of choice bits from Borodin’s Prince Igor. On one hand, we find the usual selections, including the ever-popular
This album of orchestral favorites, compiled from a variety of prior releases, showcases Telarc’s celebrated recording technique as much as Leonard Slatkin’s and the St.
This SACD presents a new three-channel mix–something that was not offered by the disc’s original producer–of these 1956-’59 Mercury Living Presence recordings. The two-channel version
This is fun if you’re either a Kleiber or a Borodin maven. Both of these performances are relatively well-known: Erich Kleiber’s NBC performance from its
Borodin’s First Symphony isn’t especially interesting, but his Second is a masterpiece, tightly constructed, brilliantly orchestrated, and tunefully delightful. It’s really the only work of
In the 1950s, under William Steinberg, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra never reached the same level as, say, the Philadelphia Orchestra of the same decade under
The tentative sound of the trumpets at the beginning of Tchaikovsky’s Capricco Italien does not bode well for this disc. But as the orchestra enters,
You would expect Soviet-era orchestras to provide bracing performances of Borodin’s quintessentially Russian symphonies, and in many ways Evgeny Svetlanov and the USSR Symphony deliver
Sony Masterworks’ new “Expanded Edition” offers well-known recordings newly remastered using DSD technology, along with “bonus” material extending the playing time of the original LP
Throughout Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, Leonard Slatkin takes special care with presenting the music’s vivid and vibrantly colored characterizations — here brought tellingly to
