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Konwitschny; Franz

  • Konwitschny’s Surprisingly Boring Bruckner 4

    What a disappointment! This 1952 mono recording sounds extremely boxy […] To access this content you must login to your Insider account, or purchase a…

    David Hurwitz

  • Big Boxes: Enough Reger To Last A Lifetime (Or End It)

    What a puzzle Max Reger was! A master of counterpoint […] To access this content you must login to your Insider account, or purchase a…

    David Hurwitz

  • Wilhelm Kempff: 1950s piano concerto perfs

    Wilhelm Kempff’s concerto recordings from the 1950s (gathered here complete) all testify to the pianist’s intimate style of music making and ravishing tonal palette. His…

    Jed Distler

  • Wagner Tristan 1950 Preiser C

    Vinyl mavens of the obsessive operatic kind may remember the Urania LP edition of this 1950 recording (whose cover is reproduced here), billed as the…

    Jed Distler

  • Wagner Tristan 1950 Archipel C

    No sooner than this 1950 Tristan makes its CD debut on Preiser than Archipel releases it too. In addition, Archipel claims its edition to be…

    Jed Distler

  • Beethoven 2&4

    The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra is the caretaker of a long-standing central European Beethoven tradition that cultivates qualities of full-throated sonority, clear textures, and rock-solid rhythms.…

    Victor Carr Jr

  • Konwitschny Wagner Supraphon C

    These Wagner performances sound a bit dated now (they come from 1960), but feature lively performances in that sensible, musicianly, middle-of-the-road German tradition of which…

    David Hurwitz

  • Schubert Nine Konwitschny Supraphon C

    This lovely Schubert Ninth has been kicking around for a while, thanks to Supraphon’s policy in Cold War days of co-producing recordings with other labels,…

    David Hurwitz

  • TRIBUTE TO THE STAATSKAPELLE OF DRESDEN

    The Dresden Staatskapelle is 450 years old (actually the date is meaningless: orchestras as we know them today have only been around for about a…

    Jed Distler

  • Beethoven Violin Concerto Suk/Supraphon C

    Fans of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto will need no urging from me to snap up this classic performance, which, in Josef Suk features one of our…

    David Hurwitz

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