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The Germans are always good for a disaster concert; perhaps it’s because German Romantic music is so heavy and generally humorless, even when it pretends
Haitink begins this recording, at least his fourth Mahler Sixth, with an incredibly slow march, not necessarily a problem given the excellent low strings of
Not much changed about Henryk Szeryng’s view of the Brahms Violin Concerto in the decade following his previous recording for Mercury Living Presence (type Q10747
This is only Haitink’s third(!) recording of this symphony. Happily, he never remade it with the Vienna Philharmonic, having recorded it twice with the Concertgebouw.
It may sound like a broken record (remember those?) to keep saying that there was a time when any new recording of a Mahler symphony
This is the final single-disc installment of Bernard Haitink’s LSO Beethoven cycle, and like the others in the series, it reflects the influence of the
The Chicago Symphony under the leadership of Henry Fogel started the trend of releasing its own recordings, initially as a fundraising opportunity, so it was
Bernard Haitink’s Concertgebouw Bruckner Sixth was one of the finer items in his complete symphony cycle for Philips. This remake employs the Dresden Staatskapelle, the
This disc is more valuable as a memento of just how characterful the Concertgebouw sounded in the 1960s and ’70s rather than as a particularly
Bernard Haitink’s efficient conducting is just what this opera doesn’t need: Siegfried is vaguely comic, a series of big confrontational duets that should surprise, one
