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The Leipzig String Quartet presents Beethoven’s earliest forays into the string quartet form with first-rate results. Each phrase is well-considered and weighty; the classical-era structure
Wolfgang Sawallisch’s otherwise laudable Beethoven cycle takes a huge backslide with this final release in the series, not so much as the performance goes, but
Whew! This may not be the most perfectly sung Don Giovanni available, but hands down it’s the most exciting–more so than the Gardiner, which is
Robert Casadesus’ reputation has faded in the years since his 1972 death, perhaps because his often understated, aristocratic pianism lacked the flashy virtuosity of some
These performances, now 40-ish years old, are still delightfully fresh; and frankly, despite all of the scholarship that has gone on since and the subsequent
Elizabeth Rich commences a Mozart cycle for Connoisseur Society with the first four sonatas plus the sixth. There’s no doubt that Rich is a sincere
During his tenure as the New Yorker’s classical music correspondent in the 1970s Andrew Porter made a special plea for the reissue of Ernst Levy’s
This set comprises the “Hoffmeister” quartet (written following the six “Haydn” quartets), and the three “Prussian” quartets–works that caused Mozart considerable struggle. He spoke of
One wonders if Clifford Curzon ever played Mozart’s last concerto to his own satisfaction. He recorded the work three times, but rejected each version for
Mozart’s piano duets are cornerstones of the four-hand literature, and their probing beauties have attracted numerous contenders on disc. Jenó Jandó and Zsuzsa Kollár generally
