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Diehard fans of this conductor will doubtless “Ooh” and “Ahh” over every minor tempo shift and pause for rhetorical emphasis while telling themselves how miraculous
Here is the fourth notable CD transfer of Joseph Szigeti’s great 1928 Brahms Concerto, and the second remastered by Mark Obert-Thorn. If Obert-Thorn’s earlier Pearl
Benno Moiseiwitsch’s 1930 recording of Schumann’s Kinderszenen abounds in fingerprints of Romantic pianism: long, introspective legato lines that taper into the sunset even at quick
EMI inexplicably continues to keep Oistrakh’s Brahms concerto with Szell in the archives everywhere except Japan, preferring to perpetually reissue the violinist’s earlier recording with
Continuing its survey of Willem Mengelberg’s studio Brahms recordings, Naxos refurbishes a pair of overtures, a symphonic movement filler, and the conductor’s fascinating 1930 traversal
The Heisser and Jude piano duo brings marvelous synchronicity of ensemble to Brahms’ Hungarian Dances and Op. 39 Waltzes while seeking textural variety by way
There’s much to savor in Brahms’ three violin sonatas through the symbiotic and refined musical partnership of violinist Pierre Amoyal and pianist Frederic Chiu. Their
The subtle, intimately scaled sonority we usually associate with Wilhelm Kempff’s commercial recordings gains amplitude, dynamism, and sheer brawn in this previously unreleased 1958 Salzburg
The CD booklet brags that the Brahms is a “World Premiere on CD”, but it’s hard to imagine anyone anxiously anticipating this hopeless, dead-on-arrival performance.
Joseph Keilberth conducts Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 with a stern lyricism not unlike that found on George Szell’s Cleveland recording. Keilberth’s quick tempos, sensitive yet
