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Now here’s a recital program you can sink your teeth into. Josef Suk and Rudolf Firkusny offer choice items on this well-filled disc, taken from
Finally reissued as a boxed set, albeit stripped of the shorter orchestral works that came attached to a couple of the symphonies, Otmar Suitner’s Dvorák
The provenance of this recording is somewhat obscure. Recording dates are listed as 1992-2004, and it’s billed as an SACD remastering of an original quadraphonic
These are impressive performances, with one exception: the stiff, lumbering rendering of the Scherzo capriccioso (that nevertheless offers some interesting textural detail), which also is
This film was made by Czech TV in 1975, with a cast of good-looking, convincing actors lip-synching Supraphon’s superb 1961 recording of the opera–except for
In reviewing two volumes of this set in its original incarnation on Essay, my colleague Jed Distler praises Inna Poroshina’s sensitivity, impulsive rhythmic freedom, and
This attractive three-disc set claims to present the “complete” overtures and tone poems, and it does nothing of the kind. What it does offer is
This vastly entertaining comic work centers around Kate, a talkative, shrewish woman who is avoided by everyone at the village dance. Angry, she announces that
Paul Strauss was an American conductor who recorded light music for Deutsche Grammophon in the 1950s. His two most popular releases are gathered here in
This manic-depressive coupling features a scrambled, spastic (in the finale) account of the Suk, paired with a dismal, droopy account of the Dvorák. In the
