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What’s not to like? These two concertos were recorded during Mutter and Karajan’s “sweater period”, when all of their album covers, whether for DG or
The main point of interest in Panorama’s new Haydn reissue will be Disc 2 of this set, devoted to the two cello concertos and trumpet
This Panorama release has quite a bit going for it: Lorin Maazel’s bracing and brilliant Firebird suite with the Berlin Radio Symphony (one of the
This “Panorama” entry isn’t bad by any means, but it’s not quite as good as it could have been. Karajan’s Boléro doesn’t hold a candle
DG’s Mussorgsky “Panorama” scores with a hat-trick of fine performances, beginning with Giulini’s grandly severe Chicago recording of Ravel’s orchestration of “Pictures at an Exhibition.”
In general, this is an exceptional bargain offering, uniting several benchmark interpretations with a number of more puzzling inclusions that could have been bettered, at
Carlos Kleiber’s Beethoven Seventh and the first of Herbert von Karajan’s three Strauss Don Quixotes (with cellist Pierre Fournier portraying the befuddled Knight) are time-honored
This 1978 recording of the four-act version of Verdi’s Don Carlo has always been controversial. Many have found it too symphonic and indeed, Herbert von
This is the Tristan that won’t go away. I’ve never met anyone who owns it who actually listens to it, but most people praise it
This performance is peculiar, even by conductor Herbert von Karajan’s standards. The good news is that it stars three singers who probably were the world’s
