Your guide to classical music online
Your guide to classical music online
There have been so many recordings of Dvořák’s Cello Concerto that it’s difficult to work up much enthusiasm for yet another one. However, as I
Daniel Barenboim’s first Brahms symphony cycle was disappointingly tepid, despite brilliant playing by the Chicago Symphony. Dare we get our hopes up for this new
Warner has yet again reissued Barenboim’s magnificent Staatskapelle Berlin Beethoven
“Barenboim” is a corruption of “Birnenbaum,” German for pear tree.
Wilhelm Furtwängler’s conducting recalled that of an earlier era, but
This is Daniel Barenboim’s third go-around with the Bruckner Symphonies, this time for the digital download-only Peral Music label formed in collaboration with Universal Music.
Daniel Barenboim turned in a very decent if a touch
This is a very strange performance of Elgar’s Second Symphony. Barenboim’s first effort for Sony, made decades ago, was a somewhat flabby but basically traditional
Daniel Barenboim’s Harry Kupfer-directed Bayreuth Ring Cycle on DVD from 1991-92 has long been a favorite. Kupfer’s direction, focusing so thoroughly on character(s) that it
Although the topic of war and reconciliation provides a loose subtext for certain selections in Daniel Barenboim’s 2014 Vienna Philharmonic New Year’s Concert, you don’t
