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This is exactly the kind of disc to put on when you are trying to study and don’t want to be unduly distracted by any
Warning! Too much sugar is hazardous to your health. So is too much cutesy-pie music by Mozart. Well, at least we think it’s by Mozart
Swiss maestro Peter Maag was, and is, one of the great Mozart conductors. Throughout his career, including very recent recordings on the Arts label, he
The subtitle, “The Unpublished EMI Recordings 1955-1958”, stirs both apprehension and anticipation. Apprehension, because the immediate question that comes to mind is “why were they
Johannes Somary captains a ship sunk by its soloists. Carole Bogard is truly awful here, her thin soprano bleating on sustained notes and resolutely refusing
This is a real rarity, and despite the fact that the score is presented with no recitatives and there are a couple of other minor
Géza Anda was the first pianist to record all 27 Mozart concertos while conducting from the keyboard, and his cycle more or less had the
Here’s a surprise entry into the Figaro sweepstakes: A live reading under the energetic, witty-but-firm leadership of Zubin Mehta, a too-infrequent visitor to the opera
An album of this sort seems as much concocted to present a portrait of the artist as to offer interpretations of the music–and there’s no
David Oistrakh, proclaims the cover in both English and Cyrillic, followed by “The Essential”. Lest the unsuspecting prospective listener think this two-disc set is a
