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Van Cliburn’s 1958 Gold Medal victory in the first international […]
Let’s not mince words. This disc is a featureless non-happening. Having both the Fifth and Sixth symphonies together on a single disc sounds enticing, and
Karajan recorded the core German repertoire over and over in
After her excellent Bartók disc for Naxos, I had high expectations for Marin Alsop’s new Prokofiev Fifth, but the result is disappointing. This is a
Volume 2 of the Pacifica Quartet’s ongoing and very intelligent series of the complete quartets of Shostakovich plus works by some of his contemporaries consists
These things—meaning whole programs of so-called “encores”—are fundamentally pointless: after
Despite early critical acclaim, Jorge Bolet’s career never really took off until the early 1970s, when he was approaching his sixth decade. Yet the pianist’s
With his rhythmic exactitude, robust tone, and perfectly balanced chords Alexander Gavrylyuk makes plain he has the technical chops to bring off Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto
Prokofiev’s rare The Ugly Duckling is the sole item of interest on this disc. Composed just prior to his opera The Gambler, it shares much
There is absolutely nothing special about this CD, either sonically or interpretively. Ashkenazy’s tempos are swift, but his shaping of both works isn’t in any
