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Guido Cantelli’s death in a November 1956 plane crash at age 36 robbed the music world of a man on his way to becoming one
Wilhelm Furtwängler just may have been the greatest conductor ever of Brahms’ First Symphony. Certainly, he brought to the work an intensity and, in the
Testament’s restoration of The 1942 Fischer/Furtwängler Brahms Second Piano Concerto was made from the same source material used for Deutsche Grammophon’s 1989 series devoted to
Wilhelm Backhaus was 83 years young when he committed this outstanding Brahms Second Concerto to disc in 1967 (the Mozart dates from 12 years earlier).
Teldec’s two Art of Conducting videos merely hinted at the treasures still locked in the vaults of film archives and TV stations. Thanks to pioneers
Best known for his gripping conducting in the fabled EMI Callas/La Scala Tosca, Victor de Sabata made pitifully few discs of purely orchestral repertoire, all
These documents recorded live at the Salzburg Festival feature Wilhelm Furtwängler conducting the Vienna Philharmonic in three consecutive seasons at the Austrian summer musical event
In the guise of a lullaby collection, this recording offers something for everyone, from the sappy and schmaltzy to the tender and endearing, from Haydn
While none of Philips’ Arthur Rubinstein “Great Pianist” surveys really shows the pianist at his irrepressible best, two-thirds of Volume Three comes within spitting distance.
Vladimir Horowitz had this to say about Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli: “Interesting pianist, but a little meshugah”! Just a “little”, eh? In the Beethoven Sonata, for
