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Out of the three recordings Artur Schnabel made of Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto, his 1932 HMV version strikes a happy medium between 1942’s raw-nerve angularity and
Prior to his sudden death in October 1956, Walter Gieseking had completed two-thirds of a projected Beethoven Sonata cycle for EMI. These four sonatas gain
Benno Moiseiwitsch recorded his good friend Sergei Rachmaninov’s C minor concerto twice: once on 78s, and a mono LP remake in 1955 with Hugo Rignold
Maria João Pires takes Beethoven’s “quasi una fantasia” heading to heart in the Op. 27 No. 2 sonata’s first movement. The freedom with which the
Fortepiano fanciers will enjoy the compact sonority of Leslie Tung’s five-octave instrument, a modern replica of a 1795 Jean-Louis Dulcken model. Tung’s refreshingly quick and
The famous Joseph Szigeti/Bela Bartók April 13, 1940 Library of Congress Recital, first issued on Vanguard LPs in the 1960s, also was brought out by
Kurt Masur leads a devotional account of the Missa solemnis, and many listeners will miss the “heaven-storming” qualities so evident in recordings by Bernstein, Klemperer,
In the recent past, Trio Parnassus has graced MDG’s burgeoning chamber music catalog with complete piano trio cycles ranging from the familiar (Schumann and Brahms)
This is a sincere, well-prepared performance with no surprises in tempi, interpretation or emphasis; just a thoroughly Beethovenian reading of this wonderful work. Böhm balances
Before Eaglen there was Nilsson; before Nilsson, Flagstad; and before Flagstad was the singer many believe the greatest Wagnerian of them all, Frida Leider. She
