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With the “Philips Early Years” edition of this set gone, probably forever, MHS offers the only way to acquire the essential collection of George Szell’s
Back from the wilderness of Sony’s Essential Classics series, and remastered in nice, clear stereo along with Bernstein’s set of Paris Symphonies for this same
Given the well-deserved attention focused upon Leon Fleisher as a 2007 Kennedy Center honoree and for his recent return to two-handed piano playing, it seems
For the first time, Sony BMG gathers under one roof all the Mozart studio recordings George Szell made with the Cleveland Orchestra for Columbia Masterworks.
Excellently remixed and remastered for their first CD incarnation in 1987, the 1959-61 Fleisher/Szell Beethoven concerto collaborations subsequently appeared in Sony’s Essential Classics budget line
George Szell wasn’t known for his Tchaikovsky, and he didn’t record all that much of him. There’s a very good Fourth Symphony on Decca (with
This splendid Entführung, taped live in Salzburg in August, 1956, has plenty to recommend it despite what might appear to be less than fascinating casting.
According to an anecdote in Harold C. Schonberg’s Vladimir Horowitz biography, George Szell called Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto “a piece of s…”–and perhaps that’s true,
Volatile temperament and fiendish commitment crackles through every bar of violinist Bronislaw Huberman’s oft-reissued Tchaikovsky and Beethoven Concertos, respectively recorded in 1928 and 1934. However
These classic performances deserve the respect accorded them for nearly half a century. Rudolf Serkin is a model Mozart pianist, not just with respect to
