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Here’s yet another reissue of Kurt Masur’s 1973 Beethoven Ninth, this time as a single budget-priced disc. It’s nothing special. For starters, the Allegro ma
Olli Mustonen can sound perverse at times; I saw him give a totally demented (in the bad sense) performance of Schumann’s Symphonic Etudes a few
That Günter Wand still commands undiminished powers of interpretation in his late 80s is cause for wonder, though it’s an open question whether documenting this
The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra is the caretaker of a long-standing central European Beethoven tradition that cultivates qualities of full-throated sonority, clear textures, and rock-solid rhythms.
If the Annie Fischer and Otto Klemperer Liszt and Schumann concerto collaborations for EMI had their touchy moments, their live 1956 Mozart K. 482 is
Perhaps through all the down-scaling going on at major record companies, song-recitalists will prove to be the most fortunate, what with their relatively inexpensive production
The Oleg Kagan/Sviatoslav Richter all-Mozart recital, recorded live at Tours in July, 1974, came out on a 1991 EMI budget CD release, minus the G
Several years ago, Quatuor Turner taped a wildly unconventional and thrilling survey of Beethoven’s Op. 18 quartets as its debut release on Harmonia Mundi’s Les
Mengelberg and the Concertgebouw may get top billing, but piano soloist Walter Gieseking chiefly commands our attention here. Keyboard mavens may be familiar with the
Beauty and bafflement join hands in the latest chapter of Stephen Kovacevich’s leisurely unfolding Beethoven cycle for EMI. A case in point: the A-flat Op.
