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There’s something about this performance that’s different from any other: People endlessly discuss how Debussy aurally evokes lightness and darkness, but whether it’s the acoustic
The Lorin Maazel/Cleveland partnership in the 1970s took the tradition of superb playing and chamber music discipline inculcated by Szell into repertoire areas other than
Ernest Ansermet’s 1949 recording of Stravinsky’s complete Petrouchka ballet was hailed as an audiophile milestone in the early days of long playing discs. Indeed, Stravinsky’s
These recordings of Haydn’s six “Paris” symphonies were made in Geneva in April 1962. Ernest Ansermet directs what sounds like a moderate-sized ensemble, scaled down
The Ernest Ansermet volume is one of the best of EMI’s Great Conductors series. It includes terrific, well-chosen performances, only a pair of which are
Georg Solti’s LSO performances bring the barbaric splendors of Prince Igor to life with unforgettable brilliance and magnetism, and the dash of scene-stealing overkill he
How nice to see Ansermet’s Antar, Decca’s first official stereo classical recording, back in the catalog. It remains in a class by itself interpretively, and
An idiomatic sense of style and a very fine ear have kept these performances before an admiring public for more than four decades in some
This is quite a special set. Ernest Ansermet met Igor Stravinsky in 1911, and the two became fast friends and professional colleagues (though they had
Appearing for the first time under EMI’s “official” auspices, these live Dinu Lipatti concerto broadcasts add three major works to the short-lived pianist’s recorded repertoire.
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