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Weber’s four piano sonatas are packed with unforgiving and cruelly exposed passages involving octaves, double notes, unison runs, and other virtuoso challenges. Yet there’s plenty
Begun and dropped by Weber in the very early 1820s and completed by Mahler in 1886 from sketches and other works by Weber (a song
This Bruckner Sixth always has been the “sleeper” among recorded performances of the work, one of the great ones, yet surprisingly little known. It also
Weber’s clarinet concertos are truly beautiful exercises in the art of instrumental bel canto, and it’s always a pleasure to hear them, particularly when performed
Born in 1863, Felix Weingartner succeeded Mahler as head of the Vienna State Opera and enjoyed a three-decade-long relationship with the Vienna Philharmonic in addition
This 1970 concert, recorded live in Tokyo by NHK radio engineers, is the stuff of which legends are made. Already fatally ill with the cancer
All the selections on this disc are undoubtedly familiar to Willem Mengelberg collectors. The main question, of course, is how Mark Obert-Thorn’s new transfers compare
This release collects a good number of Deutsche Grammophon’s Furtwängler wartime recordings into one budget box, making them convenient as well as affordable for those
These days Fritz Busch is little known outside the circles of the cognoscenti, and even there he’s sometimes confused with his brother, violinist/conductor Adolf Busch.
Gundula Janowitz was admired for her pure, silvery tones–but alas, that considerable virtue isn’t enough to sustain interest throughout a 73-minute-long disc that induces boredom
