
Recorded in 1959 is very good stereo, Albert Wolff’s Tchaikovsky […]
Recalling his first Decca Vienna Philharmonic recording sessions, producer John
Compared with her studio recording of Mozart’s K. 271 concerto,
Somehow this Decca/London recording seems to have avoided all of
Bruckner seems to be a hot composer these days, judging
There’s a reason that Mahler didn’t come into his own until the 1960s. The fact is, most continental ensembles recovering from the devastation of the
There’s something indefinably appealing about this 1952, rough-and-ready live Beethoven Seventh. Maybe it’s the electricity of a live performance, or the clear impression that everyone
Released for the first time (I believe), Carl Schuricht’s live 1961 Beethoven Ninth from Stuttgart follows a brisk and direct interpretive path familiar from his
What possible purpose does a disc like this serve? Carl Schuricht recorded a very good Eroica with the Paris Conservatory Orchestra in the late 1950s
Carl Schuricht was the kind of conductor that gives the term “Kappelmeister” a positive spin. Like many of the Austro-German timebeaters we associate with what