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Taken down live at the 1999 Prague Spring Festival, Charles Mackerras’ performance offers a typically fresh, vital look at Smetana’s masterpiece. With the Czech Philharmonic
Charles Mackerras recorded all of this music in London for EMI’s “Eminence” series, but those discs may be very difficult to find, and in any
It’s good to see these stylish, eminently musical performances reissued at mid-price. Charles Mackerras doesn’t put a foot wrong anywhere. The “Military” Symphony features sprightly
Unlike previous Alfred Brendel/Charles Mackerras Mozart concerto collaborations for Philips, the present release generally yields to the pianist’s earlier recorded versions of these two works.
These 1987 digital recordings showcasing principal players from the London Philharmonic have plenty to recommend them. The performances are accomplished and the recorded sound, if
This is a set of highlights from Chandos’ splendid English language version of Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda, designed to showcase lead Janet Baker (this is evidenced
Among the new issues from Philips honoring the 70th birthday of Alfred Brendel comes this new recording of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-flat
There’s no denying it, this is one beautiful voice. Renée Fleming possesses an instrument that is at once powerful, radiant, lush in the mid-range and
So many of today’s violin concerto recordings sound artificial because of their spotlit miking of the violin, making it sound gargantuan in relation to the
This is a wonderful work, more like an opera than an oratorio (which it is called) with its fine psychological portrait of Saul, the egocentric
