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Emmanuel Chabrier’s piano music has everything going for it: charm, wit, imagination, unexpected harmonic twists, and more than a few technical challenges. So why do
Audiophile enhancements notwithstanding, the chief reason to acquire this disc always has been Paul Paray’s vibrant and exciting renditions of these delightful works, performed with
There was a time when DG was a provincial German label, German orchestras were pretty mediocre, and just about any release not containing German basic
This enjoyable program adds up to more than the sum of its parts. Pictures at an Exhibition gets a very good reading–not perhaps the most
The weirdly compelling Ariane et Barbe-Bleue is unique: you might want to refer to French impressionism when discussing it, but that doesn’t really help; it’s
The composer of orchestral showpieces such as Espana and wonderful comic operas like L’Étoile and Le Roi malgré lui often is devalued because of his
The Ernest Ansermet volume is one of the best of EMI’s Great Conductors series. It includes terrific, well-chosen performances, only a pair of which are
Igor Markevitch was one of the greats, as can be heard in the overdue reissue of Tchaikovsky’s Manfred Symphony that opens this set. (Markevitch’s Manfred
At 77, the great Brazilian pianist Magda Tagliaferro was on fantastic form in this previously unreleased 1970 recital, recorded at the Cecilia Meirelles Hall in
About three-fourths of this recital devoted to French piano music constitutes an auspicious debut for the young Canadian pianist Naida Cole. The opening selection, Fauré’s
