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James Levine raised the MET orchestra to an exceptionally high standard in his decades as its Music Director, so as with Vienna it only makes
If we chose to ignore all works about which their composers spoke disparagingly, the active repertoire would be half its current size. Indeed, 90 percent
Bruno Walter was getting on in years when he made this classic recording of Barber’s First Symphony, but it’s the kind of piece that played
These performances, captured shortly before Sinopoli’s untimely death, make a fine memento of his art. His commercial recording of Mahler’s Ninth was a decadent mess:
This is a disappointing release. After Nina Stemme’s fine performance as Isolde on the recent Domingo/Pappano set, in which she exhibited a handsome, flexible sound,
It’s ironic that the late conductor René Köhler (1926-2002) gained posthumous fame, indeed infamy, for what he did not do, which was to accompany concerto
One of the things that I have always liked about Toscanini is the fact that he liked Haydn’s symphonies better than Mozart’s, a preference with
Lorin Maazel usually is a very good Strauss conductor, and he’s at his best in these live recordings. He launches Don Juan with considerable gusto,
Arpád Jóo’s lithe and energized Ein Heldenleben presents the piece with a minimum of fussiness. There’s Strauss’ requisite bombast, of course (particularly in the introduction,
Richard Strauss’ solo piano music dates from his teen years. Although the style often is derivative (warmed-over Mendelssohn, Weber, and Schumann) you can’t deny the
