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Leopold Stokowski gets off to a good start in Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony, with sharp rhythmic stabs opening a first movement that builds to frenzied climax,
As with previous releases in this series, Oleg Caetani has strong and musically rewarding ideas about how this piece should go. He begins the first
Magdalena Kožená’s multi-lingual recital shows this singer’s formidable talent for performing widely varying musical styles. Beginning with her idiomatic French (of which we had a
This is a frequent coupling, and Roman Kofman and the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn earn the distinction of turning in what easily are the dullest performances
Shostakovich’s film score to Hamlet is one of his finest, possibly because it’s a serious film rather than a socialist-realist potboiler, and the composer’s moody,
An early entry in Bernard Haitink’s Shostakovich cycle, this winning performance of the Fifteenth Symphony promised much for what was eventually to become a series
Neeme Järvi leads Babi Yar with his characteristic alacrity and intensity. The performance has a notable lightness of utterance and an overall sharp-edged quality that
William Kapell had a special affinity for Rachmaninov’s music and was able to make commercial recordings of three major works, two of which are included
Sony’s reissue of Midori’s Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto reveals a musical sophistication that belies the violinist’s then-teenage status. Hers is a fully formed interpretation mating virtuoso
Valery Gergiev gives the Fifth an admirably direct, clean performance full of excitement and intensity. He builds the first movement’s central climax with unerring skill,
