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This disc duplicates Testament SBT 1029, save for the addition of an extra Shostakovich Prelude and Fugue (No. 24) for filler’s sake. Collectors who missed
Fans of André Cluytens will welcome this worthwhile release. While the Turin Radio Orchestra hardly was a great orchestra in 1962, Cluytens has it playing
This was recorded long before the discovery of the hundreds of additional pages of Offenbach’s score that has informed performances since the mid-1980s. In other
Wait! Not so fast. I know this looks like just another collection of Russian orchestral showpieces (of which there are countless available), but André Cluytens
Offenbach wanted Hoffmann to be a “grand opera” but left the work unfinished at his death. What was premiered in 1881 had little to do
In his heyday, the 1950s and ’60s, André Cluytens never quite enjoyed the international stature of Munch, Paray, Ansermet, and Monteux, to name just some
The headliner in Testament’s Berlioz/André Cluytens disc–part of its excellent series of reissues of the great conductor’s recordings–is the conductor’s first, 1955 reading of the
This intelligently compiled bargain reissue demonstrates the strength of both Rimsky-Korsakov’s music on disc (when was the last time you saw a live performance of
