
Sviatoslav Richter’s June 19, 1966 Aldeburgh Festival recital first “officially” appeared on a limited edition BBC release (WMCU 0013-2). It also included Mozart’s piano duet
Volume 8 in Doremi’s ongoing Sviatoslav Richter series unearths a previously unpublished recital taped on March 18, 1990 in Savona, Italy. Mozart’s B-flat major Sonata
It’s good to have Vladimir Ashkenazy’s lone disc of Prokofiev solo works for Decca (recorded in 1967) beautifully refurbished. The 30-year-old pianist took a less
Eugene Mursky makes the opening descent of Rachmaninov’s Sonata No. 2 sound almost like the physical gesture of throwing down the gauntlet. Though his bass
Disc 1 contains the two symphonies recorded in pretty dismal sound, made worse by an LP transfer riddled with pops and clicks (there’s even an
Here’s a major coup for Sviatoslav Richter fans. The great pianist’s 1960 American debut tour included a triumphant series of five Carnegie Hall recitals. Such
Fashioned from Prokofiev’s own three suites from his magnificent Cinderella ballet, conductor James DePreist’s compilation more or less follows the story’s dramatic narrative. It’s a
If you listen score-in-hand you’ll doubtless be impressed by the fastidious attention to notated details in cellist Erling Blöndal Bengtsson’s Danacord recordings of Barber, Debussy,
This recording, made at the 1978 Tchaikovsky competition in Moscow, is one of the few documents of the phenomenal pianism of Terence Judd, whose meteoric
A technical question: Since Herschel Burke Gilbert produced these sessions recorded by West German Radio in association with American Digital, wouldn’t it stand to reason