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It’s not every orchestral showpiece disc that begins with Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, and this stirring performance sets up an expectation that is not
It’s nice to have this 1975 recording back in the catalog: Ozawa’s way with the score is beautiful and thoughtful, and he deals with Faust’s
The period from 1945 to 1960 was a critical one in the history of the (Royal) Concertgebouw Orchestra, for this was the time that Eduard
While at first these two works would seem to be odd disc mates, they are similar in that they are both part concerto and part
Here’s a real bargain: three LPs-worth of excellent Berlioz performances on two CDS, offered for the price of one! Leonard Bernstein’s dramatic yet classically structured
Hector Berlioz’s revolutionary Symphonie fantastique is one of the most difficult pieces of music to perform successfully. The conductor needs to recapture that sense of
In recounting the premiere of his Requiem, Berlioz wrote “the terror inspired […..] was indescribable. One of the female choristers suffered an attack of nerves.
Although a well-loved character in Britain, Sir John Barbirolli was a maddeningly inconsistent conductor who was very much at the mercy of his musicians. Though
Munch’s performances when he was Music Director of the Boston Symphony could often be thrilling exhibitions of improvisation; many, in fact, were often too thrilling:
Teldec’s two Art of Conducting videos were merely a hint of the treasures still locked in the vaults of film archives and TV stations. Thanks
