Boult; Adrian

Under the Radar: Boult’s Surprisingly Fine Shostakovich Sixth

David Hurwitz

Originally issued on CD in tandem with Malcolm Sargent’s not […]

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Reference Recording: Christa Ludwig’s Supreme Mahler Lieder

David Hurwitz

Christa Ludwig’s superlative EMI recording of Mahler Lieder has been

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CD From Hell: Boult’s Hindemith Symphony in E-flat(ulent)

David Hurwitz

Sometimes the industry makes my job so easy. Do you

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Big Boxes: Boult’s Endless Elgar

David Hurwitz

It’s interesting that Adrian Boult did not show much initial

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Reference Recording: Classic Boult in Moeran’s Symphony

David Hurwitz

Probably no other country turned out such a bountiful crop

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Big Boxes: Boult Conducts Vaughan-Williams

David Hurwitz

For some reason, Boult never quite got the credit for

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CD From Hell: Historically Dreary Kentner in Bartók and Liszt

Jed Distler

On February 27, 1946 pianist Louis Kentner presented the European

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Basic Holst in a Handy Box

David Hurwitz

The reasons for Holst’s relative neglect, beyond The Planets and

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EMI’s Big Boult Box: It May Surprise You

David Hurwitz

At his best, Adrian Boult achieved an inevitability and naturalness

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CD From Hell: Boult’s Sexless Rachmaninov Third

David Hurwitz

There’s a hilarious scene in “Sex and the City” where

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Dvorák: Tone Poems Ably Presented by Theodor Kuchar

David Hurwitz September 7, 2025

Dvorak: Dimitrij

Robert Levine September 7, 2025

Glazunov’s First Class, Sadly Neglected Piano Sonatas

David Hurwitz August 24, 2025

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by Robert Levine
October 6, 2024
Benjamin Bernheim Rules as Met’s Hoffmann Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, NY; Oct 24, 2024 Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann is a nasty work. Despite its
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Finally, It’s SIR John
by ClassicsToday
June 24, 2024
He’d received many honors before, but it wasn’t until last week that John Rutter, best known for his choral compositions and arrangements, especially works related