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The standout item in this release is Bartók’s early symphonic poem Kossuth, partly because of its relative rarity on discs, but also for the opportunity
Artistically at least, the Herbert Blomstedt/San Francisco Symphony/Decca Records partnership was one of the most successful of the 1990s. For the most part the performances
Herbert Blomstedt was both lucky and unlucky on disc during his tenure in San Francisco. He was lucky in that he made no bad recordings,
Herbert Blomstedt’s Decca recording of the complete Peer Gynt score remains my reference recording for getting the most music onto a single disc, and this
I vividly remember a Hindemith memorial concert given at Yale University in the late 1970s that featured an all-too-rare opportunity to hear in concert these
Musical Heritage Society is doing yeoman work in keeping available excellent but rapidly deleted titles such as this one. Herbert Blomstedt coaxes magnificent playing from
This release completes EMI’s re-reissue of Herbert Blomstedt’s first Nielsen cycle in “twofer” format. The Fifth Symphony in the later San Francisco performance represented the
Herbert Blomstedt’s first Nielsen Symphony cycle has made the rounds of reissues and now appears in its cheapest incarnation yet. All of these performances were
These are very romantic, traditional Schubert performances, but none the worse for that. Herbert Blomstedt takes the Fifth Symphony at comfortable tempos throughout, emphasizing the
This is the first of two Double Decca reissues containing Herbert Blomstedt’s justly praised second cycle of the complete Nielsen Symphonies. Disc one of this
