
Mark Obert-Thorn’s transfer of Artur Schnabel’s 1938 Brahms D minor Concerto for Naxos is cleaner and clearer than the one that appeared on Pearl some
One of the great treasures of the recording era is this 1937 document of the Dvorák concerto, in which soloist, young conductor, and orchestra come
George Szell’s excellent Tchaikovsky Fourth Symphony, long absent from the catalog, has made a welcome return on several different labels, most recently Universal’s not overwhelmingly
Your reaction to this famous recording depends on whether you find the cutesy-pooh antics of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau charming or sickening. Certainly, there’s
This 5-CD set presents a collection of recordings from Decca’s back catalog covering some of the major symphonic works from the late 18th to the
George Szell’s Prokofiev Fifth is a swift, exciting performance that offers predictably razor-sharp orchestral execution. The recording, though, which dates from the late 1950s, is
Teldec’s two Art of Conducting videos were merely a hint of the treasures still locked in the vaults of film archives and TV stations. Thanks
George Szell owned the Brahms concerto. He recorded it three times in stereo, with Leon Fleischer, Rudolph Serkin, and in this version with Clifford Curzon.