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This is an atrocious performance of Bruckner’s Third Symphony: sluggish, […]
Most conductors stay active way past their expiration dates, but
A minor caveat first. Listeners will have to adjust to the voice/orchestra balance: the former is highlighted to an irritating degree in Act 1. This
Because Rudolf Kempe’s 1956 Berlin Philharmonic recording of Wagner’s Die
José Serebrier’s several discs of Stokowski transcriptions for Naxos were very successful, as this well-chosen selection reminds us. Stoki was not really a “great” orchestrator,
This mostly fine performance of Lohengrin from Munich in 1963 is, I believe, making its first appearance on CD with this Orfeo release. The mono
Jed Distler lauded this performance on its first reissue on
This splendid set, recorded commercially in 1980 but held up
Bernstein’s Universal boxes have, on the whole, been more intelligently
Sonically speaking, there’s little to choose between the Naxos edition
