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Live Classics’ Natalia Gutman “Portrait” series continues with a second volume documenting the cellist’s work from her early career up to the present. A 1967
These excellent performances remain among the finest available. The Quartetto Italiano differentiates the two works nicely: the Debussy passionate and warmly expressive, the Ravel crisply
This disc reissues three works centering on two of Edgar Allen Poe’s short stories and one poem. The French have always had a love affair
The 14 piano rolls Claude Debussy recorded on November 1, 1913, for M. Welte & Soehne provide important information vis-a-vis tempo relationships and note changes.
This is one of the best examples of mood programming I’ve ever seen. The gentle, exotic strains of Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a
Gielen’s is an easygoing La Mer, one with calm seas rather than storm surges. Even the Dialogue of the Wind and the Sea comes across
This is a difficult CD to review. First, we must question its purpose. All three of the featured recordings have been issued on CD before,
Gunter Wand has been so long associated with the central Austro-Germanic symphonic repertoire (Bruckner, Brahms, Beethoven) that this disc of French and Russian music seems
Neeme Järvi’s always at his best in brash, extrovert music. That makes his Milhaud exciting and his La Valse handsomely apocalyptic. Bolero, though good, lacks
In Debussy’s Nocturnes Sergiu Celibidache lets the clouds of Nuages drift by at a dreamily slow pace, conjuring up a lazy summer afternoon, while he
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