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Taped in Sofia, Bulgaria, in February 1958, this recital by Sviatoslav Richter has long been a discographic legend. Having been tremendously impressed by new digital
DG’s Mussorgsky “Panorama” scores with a hat-trick of fine performances, beginning with Giulini’s grandly severe Chicago recording of Ravel’s orchestration of “Pictures at an Exhibition.”
These are fine performances, but why, oh why does BBC Music persist in releasing yet more examples of music that the same artists recorded commercially
Magnificent! This set contains the hugely talented Guido Cantelli’s complete studio recordings with the NBC Symphony, and what a pity that there are so few
Gunter Wand has been so long associated with the central Austro-Germanic symphonic repertoire (Bruckner, Brahms, Beethoven) that this disc of French and Russian music seems
The Prokofiev Symphony No. 5 is the best of this lot. It boasts warm, full sound and highly alert playing. Celibidache employs what must be
Serge Koussevitsky was a champion of modern music, commissioning, among many other important works, two of the most popular orchestral showpieces in the repertoire: Bartók’s
The Redwood Symphony, an all-volunteer community orchestra founded in 1985, is the little orchestra that could. Its body of amateur and professional musicians may not
This release captures the great conductor Carlo Maria Giulini in live performances from 1961, early in his career. Given that he recorded both the Tchaikovsky
This CD presents the organ of St. Bartholomew’s Church in New York City, which is, according to the program notes, the largest in the Big
