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As one of its chief virtues, Bernard Haitink’s 1970s Brahms symphony cycle exhibited the distinguished playing of the Concertgebouw Orchestra. Indeed, the orchestra sounds gorgeous
Evgeny Kissin’s astoundingly proficient Brahms Paganini Variations recording from the mid 1990s made me wonder how he’d approach the composer’s equally demanding yet less demonstrably
In celebration of James Levine’s 60th birthday, Deutsche Grammophon has assembled a handsome collection of the conductor’s recordings featuring the four orchestras with which he
Rudolf Kempe’s Bruckner Fourth is reason enough to get this entry in EMI’s Great Conductors series. In this live 1972 broadcast recording from Munich, Kempe
If you’ve a hankering for light, airy, and Fauré-like Brahms cello sonatas, check out this release. Cellist Yegor Dyachkov and pianist Jean Saulnier make beautiful,
No realistic listener will expect a collection this extensive–8 CDs covering 14 works, most of them major compositions and most offered in their entirety, recorded
Brahms’ duet arrangement of his Fourth Symphony finds Matthies and Köhn slightly below their best form. They seem to miss the first movement’s forest for
Pairing the Brahms and Mozart Clarinet Quintets is something of a no-brainer since the two are the backbone of the clarinet-based chamber repertoire–and they fit
By the time Rudolf Serkin came to record for DG, advancing age and declining health had begun to take their toll on the pianist’s redoubtable
Brahms’ lieder may never achieve the popularity of Schubert and Schumann’s contributions to the genre, but they form a body of important and highly satisfying
