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The spongy, string-dominated opening of this Scheherazade is an immediate turn-off. What happened to the accents? Where are the trombones? (I’ll tell you where: they’re
All the recordings here come from various live John Browning recitals that took place between 1950 and 1964. Despite inevitable variation in sound quality from
The Snow Maiden was premiered in 1882 to great acclaim throughout Russia. Its success is easily contemplated; after all, it’s based on one of the
Leopold Stokowski’s most famous, and best, Scheherazade was his London Symphony recording for Decca. This later RCA offering lacks that version’s sumptuous (some would say
This album of orchestral favorites, compiled from a variety of prior releases, showcases Telarc’s celebrated recording technique as much as Leonard Slatkin’s and the St.
This SACD presents a new three-channel mix–something that was not offered by the disc’s original producer–of these 1956-’59 Mercury Living Presence recordings. The two-channel version
The tentative sound of the trumpets at the beginning of Tchaikovsky’s Capricco Italien does not bode well for this disc. But as the orchestra enters,
In the 1950s, under William Steinberg, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra never reached the same level as, say, the Philadelphia Orchestra of the same decade under
Technically speaking, Wen-Yu Shen plays extremely well for his 17 years. As a musician, however, he’s still a work in progress. Although he easily commands
Compared to many of his contemporaries, much of Artur Rodzinski’s long, fruitful career is relatively undocumented on CD, so this is a welcome release. In
