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Giulini’s Los Angeles La Mer has had a spotty history on disc yet it remains his finest account of the score, a bit measured in
Cathedral recordings have a way of lending a disembodied quality to the music that can make the performance sound as if it were taking place
The extent to which a composer’s own recorded interpretations of his works cast a pall on future versions, both live and on disc, forms one
This is the dullest of all of Rostropovich’s umpteen recordings of the Dvorák. The fault is Giulini’s. My god, he’s boring! He trudges through the
This grotesque sounding (stereo!!!) performance, recorded in the impossibly reverberant acoustic of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, need not detain us long. There is no orchestra.
DG’s Mussorgsky “Panorama” scores with a hat-trick of fine performances, beginning with Giulini’s grandly severe Chicago recording of Ravel’s orchestration of “Pictures at an Exhibition.”
Nothing new or rare here, but LP mavens wishing these performances in state-of-the-art analog transfers on super thick, extra virgin vinyl should investigate this boxed
This 1970 live Don Giovanni is an odd performance, not altogether satisfying (and certainly not up to the level of Giulini’s magnificent EMI recording with
It’s good to have Luciano Pavarotti and Renata Scotto together in their primes. Both were singers of intelligence and sensitivity, and except in Scotto’s case,
This release captures the great conductor Carlo Maria Giulini in live performances from 1961, early in his career. Given that he recorded both the Tchaikovsky
