Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra were big fish in […]
The Bottom Line: Just about everything Kocsis did is worth
During the 1970s and 80s scarcely a month went by
These recordings are stunning, plain and simple. There isn’t a
The ten best recordings of 2021 represent an eclectic mix of new recordings and boxed set reissues. Regarding the former, the emphasis for the most
Pierre Boulez was a new music conductor of the old
This release actually preceded that of the recent Concerto for Orchestra and Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta. It’s every bit as fine. Susanna Mälkki
There hasn’t been a coupling of these two iconic works this successful in, well, decades. Usually the pieces get divided between different performers, or if
Lise de la Salle’s “When Do We Dance?” presents a guided world tour of dance-inspired works, starting in the Unites States and Argentina, crossing the
Complete recordings of Bartók’s alternately spooky and violent ballet The Miraculous Mandarin have become almost as common as those of its proximate inspiration, Stravinsky’s Rite