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Careful remastering certainly makes the Debussy items sound fresher and more vivid than ever before, and the performances are terrific. La Mer was a Giulini
This remarkable collection drawn from Universal’s back catalog makes an intelligent and affectionate tribute to as fine a collection of principal wind and brass players
London’s Royal Opera House’s new record label mines the gold in its archives, among which there can be few treasures that for musical excellence and
The second half of the finale of Dvorák’s Eighth Symphony consists of a series of sweetly lazy variations that can sound very repetitious if taken
The reissue game continues. All of this material has been available more or less continuously in recent years, with the exception of Frühbeck’s Three-Cornered Hat,
The two performances on this CD reflect Carlo Maria Giulini’s late conducting style, with slowish tempos matched to a directness of expression and solidity of
Much as Arthur Rubinstein enjoyed and understood the recording process, he loved playing for live audiences even more. His surviving concert performances may be less
There is a fundamental illogic to the commonly heard assertion that conductors who ignore a composer’s clear tempo instructions and play everything within a movement
The recordings Vladimir Horowitz made for Deutsche Grammophon during the last four years of his life contain some of the legendary pianist’s most singing and
Some discs are so unnecessary. Carlo Maria Giulini, inspirational though he was, recorded two excellent versions of Bruckner’s Ninth, one for EMI with the Chicago
