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In their recent excellent recording of Pictures at an Exhibition and other Mussorgsky goodies, the NSOU’s sometimes rough and ready sonority actually plays to the
At age 20, Lang Lang surely is 2003’s leading candidate to fill the “next great pianist” hotseat, especially with a Deutsche Grammophon contract in hand
This stereo-only SACD offers the first presentation of these early Telarc recordings transferred from the original 50 kHz digital masters, which means that you now
Rautavaara’s Apotheosis, one of his most accessible and beautiful works, is a gently rhapsodic interlude drawn from material for his opera Vincent. The composer’s characteristically
Here’s a terrifically played and recorded disc that couples two comparatively neglected works and makes a powerful case for both of them. Tchaikovsky’s Concert Fantasia
José Serebrier’s distinctive conceptions and nimble conducting imbue the familiar Marche slave, Capriccio italien, and 1812 Overture with a freshness that belies their long-held “warhorse”
At first glance, a disc of chamber works by Tchaikovsky and Britten doesn’t seem like the world’s most natural pairing, other than to highlight first
Even as far back as the mid-1960s (when these recordings where made) Herbert von Karajan had the Berlin Philharmonic sounding (for better or worse) like
The Barenboim/Celibidache combination proves a potent one in Schumann’s Piano Concerto. In the first movement Barenboim’s light touch and freely elastic rubato make for a
Though Erica Morini recorded both of these warhorses in the studio (the Tchaikovsky twice, in fact), these previously unreleased live performances reveal the extent to
