

This is a gorgeous Scheherazade. Not surprisingly, given the fact that this is Beecham’s orchestra a half-dozen years after the great Englishman’s death, the performance

Dvorák’s Symphony No. 8 is probably the happiest symphony ever composed, a notion supported by this engaging new recording by Mariss Jansons and the Bavarian

If I had to choose any pair of performances that represent Václav Talich at his best, it probably would be these. He was a close

For some weird reason, these stereo performances never made it

Yes, the Fourth! Singleton recordings of this symphony are simply

The primary reason to care about this recording is the presence of two Erwin Schulhoff works: the tempest in a teapot Quartet No. 1 and

The Horowitz here is Joseph, the critic and music historian, not Vladimir, aided and abetted by noted Dvorák scholar Michael Beckerman of NYU, whose work

For this recording, an early co-production with Deutsche Grammophon, Karel

Listening to and evaluating historical recordings such as this can

There have been so many discs by lesser-known artists, ensembles,
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