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Ugh! So slow! were Vladimir Horowitz’s reactions to Claudio Arrau’s measured, ruminative Beethoven selections featured here. Once you accept the Chilean pianist’s unhurried, Furtwänglerian aesthetic,
Stemming from two concerts held in November 1994, these live Suisse Romande Radio archive recordings appear for the first time on CD, to the best
John Eliot Gardiner’s Brahms is the musical equivalent of a gluten-free diet. It will keep you alive if you’re deathly allergic to wheat, but if
These 2008/09 recordings were made in anticipation of Claude Frank’s 85th birthday on December 24, 2010, and testify to the veteran pianist’s seasoned musicianship and
Sonically speaking, as of January 2011 this is the best-engineered period-instrument recording of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations. It features what appears to be a well-preserved and
These are beautiful performances, though the Sixth Symphony is perhaps a touch more interesting than the Fourth. In the latter work Iván Fischer’s finale is
As most opera lovers know, Beethoven toiled greatly over his sole opera which was premiered in 1805 and revised in 1806–and then finally again in
Canadian pianist and composer Stewart Goodyear has been amassing quite a bit of attention lately, and deservedly so, judging from these vital, communicative, and intelligently
It’s good that Nimbus has been licensing material from the American MusicMasters catalogue to reissue. However, in this particular case they’ve given us the wrong
For the most part, this Beethoven sonata release upholds Mari Kodama’s profoundly undistinguished reputation in this repertoire, at least on the basis of the discs
