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Historic record mavens are most likely to know Conrad Hansen in his role as piano soloist in Mengelberg’s Berlin Philharmonic studio recording of the Tchaikovsky
Barbirolli’s Haffner Symphony offers a lively and stylish interpretation, full of warmth and energy, assuming you can accept cavernous 1967 Royal Albert Hall recorded sound
Konstantin Scherbakov follows his earlier release in Naxos’ complete Liszt piano music cycle with two more Beethoven symphonies “de-orchestrated” in Liszt’s inimitably ingenuous fashion. At
It’s odd that no one has previously recorded Beethoven’s own piano arrangement for his complete ballet score to The Creatures of Prometheus. So what better
Multiple CD editions of 78-era recordings continue to flood the historic reissue bins while collectors go nuts trying to figure out which transfers are the
It’s a bit difficult to try to figure out exactly whom this collection of Beethoven concerto performances best serves. Let’s leave aside the issue of
The Vermeer Quartet made some outstandingly good recordings, none better than its Teldec traversal of Beethoven’s three Op. 59 “Razumovsky” quartets, recorded in 1988/89. In
These finely engineered recordings, made in the early 1990s by the Trio Fontenay, are certainly good as far as they go, but there are several
Disc 2 of this collection offers rare Josef Hofmann broadcast material that hasn’t appeared elsewhere on CD. By and large the performances confirm the great
Oswald Kabasta’s 1943/44 German Radio broadcast performances of Dvorák’s “New World” Symphony (previously attributed to Furtwängler) and Bruckner’s Fourth boast whipped-up sonorities, fast tempos, little
