
The Mozart and Debussy selections stem from Sviatoslav Richter’s Prague recital of March 17, 1968. Richter collectors may have encountered the Mozart on AS-Disc 329,
For its second Supraphon disc, the Afflatus Quintet turns from the spicy harmonic world of early-20th-century France (on the earlier release) to the simpler, gentler
Frieder Bernius and his Stuttgart forces weigh in with one of the finer Mozart Requiems in a very crowded field–and to ensure this performance’s relative
This is a very good Cosi, but one that is unnecessary in the larger scheme of things, particularly since fans of most of the singers
Either by accident or design, these two concertos have been paired at least four times before on CD: Schiff/Decca; Stepan/Supraphon; de Larrocha/RCA; and Haskil/DG. The
There are few surprises in this complete (it includes the little Leporello/Zerlina duet) Don Giovanni. Georg Solti’s reading is certainly far more “dramma” than “giocoso”–much
These days Fritz Busch is little known outside the circles of the cognoscenti, and even there he’s sometimes confused with his brother, violinist/conductor Adolf Busch.
This English-language Abduction, first released in 1968, has a lot to recommend it. The Bath Festival Orchestra plays with grace and charm, and Yehudi Menuhin’s
Admirers of Otto Klemperer will be heartened by the contents of this disc (which he probably never would have authorized) if only to prove to
Finally! Naxos blesses us with the first decent-sounding CD transfers of the legendary Josef Lhevinne’s complete studio recordings, a slender yet priceless legacy that belongs