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By the time Rudolf Serkin came to record for DG, advancing age and declining health had begun to take their toll on the pianist’s redoubtable
It’s not often that accompaniment takes center stage in a recital of Schubert lieder, especially with a duo of A-list soloists heading the bill. In
The critical reaction to the original CD version of this highly anticipated release of Wagner arias was decidedly mixed (please type Q4851 in Search Reviews).
This is a strangely unsatisfying disc. There is probably no bass-baritone in the world with a more beautiful, colorful, technically secure voice. I’ve never found
The disc opens with Claudio Abbado’s fleet and unsentimental Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, in which he emphasizes the work’s cool beauty. Nocturnes
I’m going to go out on a limb and call this the finest Brahms concerto since Heifetz/Reiner or Oistrakh/Klemperer (or Szell), and it’s all the
Releases like this make you wonder if record companies aren’t run by Hollywood moguls. Imagine that a film studio head decides his company needs a
This disc containing performances dating from Claudio Abbado’s early, “interesting” period explores the nether-reaches of reissue absurdity. Let us assume, for the sake of argument,
Only two reasons seem logical for a record company to make a second recording of an artist in a particular work: the artist’s interpretation/insight changed
There would seem only two logical reasons for a record company to make a second recording of an artist in a particular work: the artist’s
