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Looking back at my unflattering review of pianist Margaret Wacyk’s previous Roméo release (type Q8767 in Search Reviews), I hoped that her follow-up recital would
Dimitri Mitropoulos conducts Schumann’s “Spring” Symphony, recorded live at the 1957 Salzburg Festival, with a buoyant energy and joyful spirit that pre-echoes Bernstein’s Vienna recording
Here are 80 minutes’ worth of highlights from Arthur Rubinstein’s April 20, 1963 recital in Nijmegen, and “high” is the operative word. The performances bring
Everything about this performance of Dvorák’s Ninth is bad: the concept, the conducting, and the playing. First, the concept: the very idea of Dvorák on
Audite’s third of four double-CD sets devoted to Géza Anda’s Cologne Radio broadcasts mostly features solo works otherwise available in the pianist’s commercial catalog. However,
This is the kind of disc that makes for an easy review: a first-rate recital featuring beautiful, sensitive, expressive singing guided by intelligent interpretive decisions
This June 21, 1987 recital from Hamburg capped Vladimir Horowitz’s last European tour and proved to be his final public performance. It confirms what we
Supraphon’s properly pitched, 24-bit remasterings of Sviatoslav Richter’s 1956 Schumann Fantasiestücke, Waldszenen, and G minor Marsch convey a richness in the bass and boosted midrange
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski leads a brisk and bracing account of Symphony No. 1 (similar to Zinman’s Tonhalle Orchestra recording), an approach that posits Schumann as an
Thomas Dausgaard has some interesting ideas about Schumann’s Symphony No. 1. He takes Schumann’s Allegro molto vivace marking to heart and drives the first movement
