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That Erich Kleiber was a major conductor is evident to anyone familiar with his Decca recordings of Strauss’ Rosenkavalier, Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro, and the
These days Bruno Walter is best known for his Columbia Symphony stereo recordings, most of which were made when he was in his 80s and
Between 1945 and 1981 Yehudi Menuhin recorded the Beethoven concerto a remarkable 10 times. His best known traversals are those under Furtwängler and the 1966
This Hänssler release features two Karl Böhm performances drawn from the SWR radio archives. The Beethoven, from 1953, features the sensitive pianism of Brancka Musulin,
What better excuse to learn Beethoven’s C minor concerto than the promise of a lead role in a grand epic feature, where the female cabaret-pianist
In the main, Claudio Arrau’s live Beethoven Op. 2 No. 3 from the 1976 Prague Spring Festival differs little from his Philips studio version of
The star of this recording is an 1882 vintage Steinway, whose registers are attractively differentiated. However, Frank Braley’s traversals of these oft-recorded warhorses leave an
Mendelssohn’s youthful Octet receives an immaculately polished and vivacious performance from the combined Brandis and Westphal Quartets, drawn from the ranks of the Berlin Philharmonic
Tahra unearths more previously unissued Beethoven broadcasts featuring the Concertgebouw Orchestra under Willem Mengelberg. Interpretively speaking, the Second Symphony performed on May 14, 1936 differs
Peter Oundjian’s finely crafted orchestral rendition of Beethoven’s Op. 131 Quartet is quite the opposite of Leonard Bernstein’s grippingly intense one. Whereas Bernstein strove to
