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Chopin dominates Volume 3 in APR’s slowly progressing survey of Alfred Cortot’s post-war HMV recordings. Although the pianist’s erratic technique had slipped by the time
Eugene Ormandy leads a straightforward Scottish Symphony, with moderate tempos and simple phrasing. It certainly features little of the emotional volatility that Ormandy’s protégé and
These 1960 performances are classics among the classics, and there is little need to emphasize their qualities. Otto Klemperer conducts the incidental music for A
This stellar recording of the Mendelssohn Octet certainly fulfills the high expectations aroused at the prospect of combining the efforts of the superlative Smetana and
Hard on the heels of acclaimed versions by the Talich and Emerson quartets, here’s yet another set of the complete Mendelssohn String Quartets. This one’s
Collectors in the early 1970s could count on John Ogdon’s Mendelssohn concertos as plausible supplements to Rudolf Serkin’s fiery reference versions–his fingers still commanded all
Mendelssohn must be regarded as the composer who defanged minor-key music. Hardly anyone used minor keys as frequently, but at the same time so innocuously
Not much changed about Henryk Szeryng’s view of the Brahms Violin Concerto in the decade following his previous recording for Mercury Living Presence (type Q10747
The performances collected on these two discs were recorded live at Manhattan School of Music in 1982, 1986, and 1987, and represent the latter part
This Mendelssohn disc is arguably of lesser historic importance than others in the Mercury catalog. Peter Maag’s contemporaneous recordings of the Third and Fourth Symphonies
