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These are classic recordings, which isn’t to say that they are necessarily the best recordings. Barbirolli’s version of the Cockaigne Overture always has been compromised
Although caught in concert in the BBC studios in 1966 (concerto) and 1963 (sonata), these archives are in mono, a not very good mono in
There’s something creepy, even sick, in the way the British music industry and press has made a fetish out of the careers of female artists
EMI’s Grieg two-fer offers a generous sampling of the composer’s orchestral works, with a few piano pieces thrown in for good measure. Paavo Berglund leads
John Barbirolli nearly always has something to say in late-Romantic music, and he’s got a singular asset in the Czech Philharmonic at its Ancerl-led, early-’60s
John Barbirolli’s live 1966 Berlin Philharmonic Mahler Sixth lends new meaning to the work’s “Tragic” subtitle. Here, the legend–the conductor’s reputation as an exceptional Mahler
After the shocking excellence of its recent Svetlanov Scheherazade, BBC Legends returns to form with this next installment in its “Worst Recordings Ever Made by
Few violinists can even begin to approach Heifetz in the great Romantic showpieces for which he set formidable standards of technique, temperament, and taste. Henri
Composer-led recordings are always historically interesting even if they vary in musical quality. Ralph Vaughan Williams’ 1937 version of his wrathful Fourth Symphony has the
GLORIOUS JOHN AND THE BIG BAD BBC: A CAUTIONARY TALE Once upon a time, in an island nation famous for its literature, theater, jurisprudence, empire
