
This appealing set contains all of Prokofiev’s most important ballets […]
The main purpose in putting this set together, obviously, was
Perhaps no great Russian symphony has received more lousy performances
This nine-disc box contains much of the same material in
The reasons for Holst’s relative neglect, beyond The Planets and
Why aren’t these concertos played anymore? Okay, they may not be heavy duty masterpieces, but there isn’t a dud in the bunch. The 2nd and
André Previn recorded an excellent “London Symphony” for RCA as part of his complete cycle of Vaughan Williams symphonies, and although conventional wisdom holds that
The glut of recordings of just about everything over the past couple of decades makes for short memories: this is a fabulous Alpine Symphony, vastly
André Previn’s Walton First Symphony remains the performance by which all others must be measured. Dating from the mid-1960s, at the start of Previn’s highly
One of the highlights of this disc is Barbara Bonney’s Sallie Chisum Remembers Billy the Kid; another is the same singer’s rendition of Vocalise, a