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This Debussy reissue is a must-have for any collection. The Prélude (recorded in 1976) is beautifully and affectingly done. While the un-credited flute soloist is
Who said “live” was better? Here’s a sloppy, pathetic performance of Mahler’s Fifth that ought never to have been released, particularly given the high level
When he’s “on”, Bernard Haitink is such a sincere, musical conductor that it’s distressing just how patchy his work seems to be nowadays. Take this
Philips observes the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Claudio Arrau’s birth with a 10-disc set bursting with a well-selected overview of the great pianist’s
This, Haitink’s third recording of the Third Symphony, clearly is the least successful. It captures the conductor in singularly dour mood, with plodding tempos and
An early entry in Bernard Haitink’s Shostakovich cycle, this winning performance of the Fifteenth Symphony promised much for what was eventually to become a series
Ravel’s music is, as we know, all “surface”, and few conductors and orchestras polish that surface to a finer sheen than Haitink and the Concertgebouw.
This new LSO Live release is the first installment in a projected Brahms Symphony cycle, making it the third such undertaking by Bernard Haitink on
As one of its chief virtues, Bernard Haitink’s 1970s Brahms symphony cycle exhibited the distinguished playing of the Concertgebouw Orchestra. Indeed, the orchestra sounds gorgeous
Bernard Haitink’s reading of this glorious, misty work is gloriously misty, if that’s what you’re looking for. Haitink is a conductor who to my ears
