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What makes Sviatoslav Richter’s famous Sofia performance of Pictures at an Exhibition so special isn’t so much its virtuosity and brilliance as it is the
The highlight of Volume 3 of this Naxos series devoted to the concerto recordings of Fritz Kreisler is an extraordinary 1915 (yes, I really do
How did this one make it to RCA’s High Performance series? Certainly not because of its High Fidelity: the recording has a thin and washed-out
Even in its day, Rachmaninov’s 1929 recording of his popular Second Concerto was not quite state-of-the-art, sound wise. However, its newest sonic facelift via the
This well-programmed and excellently produced reissue traces the progression of Eugene Ormandy’s early career from Broadway pit orchestra violinist and conductor to music director of
This superficially attractive coupling of these four popular Copland works, remastered in BMG’s latest 24/96 technology, seems to promise the kind of sound that, if
None of these recordings were particularly well engineered for their time, yet Mark Obert-Thorn wrings more sonic information from them than BMG’s over-processed transfers reveal.
