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It’s good to have Kempff’s early fifties Liszt recordings for Decca available again. The sound is murky, yet the pianist’s subtleties of touch and color
Carl Schuricht’s mono Beethoven cycle for EMI in the late 1950s was preceded by a near-complete traversal with various orchestras during the 78 era. Despite
Doremi continues to mine rare postwar Melodiya bounty, launching a series devoted to Emil Gilels. His 1947 Beethoven Third is the first of his six
While the Philips and Lys releases of Mengelberg’s live 1940 Beethoven cycle incorporate the conductor’s studio “Eroica” from the same year, Grammofono includes a live
What can Alfred Brendel possibly find in recording the Beethoven Concertos for the fourth time? For one thing, Simon Rattle and his characterful Viennese musicians
The late Romanian pianist Mindru Katz takes top honors with his polished and deeply musical Emperor Concerto, abetted by Barbirolli’s assertive yet supple support, with
None of the masterful late sets of Bagatelles appear in this collection of odds and ends. These are mostly early works and “chips” from the
