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Recorded hot on the heels of his landmark Gold Medal victory in the first Moscow Tchaikovsky Competition, the 23-year-old Van Cliburn’s million-selling 1958 Tchaikovsky First
This 1974 live concert recording represents Kirill Kondrashin’s last appearance with the Staatskapelle Dresden, for what that bit of information is worth. He sets a
The Staatskapelle Dresden was, and probably still is, Germany’s greatest orchestra overall, the one with the most distinctive sound, the grandest historical tradition, and the
Van Cliburn’s live 1958 Rachmaninov Third Concerto from Carnegie Hall makes its first appearance in RCA’s Living Stereo line. Its three-track incarnation gives a stronger
These performances have been kicking around for a while on various labels, most recently Brilliant Classics, but this coupling is very logical, and if you
Although the original 3-track 35mm magnetic film sources for these early-1960s recordings are missing, the 3-channel half-inch master tapes sound quite lifelike, detailed, and dynamically
Boris Belkin’s playing style–a mixture of lean, sinewy articulation and silky smooth tone–ideally suits the Prokofiev concertos, themselves an amalgam of musical angles and curves.
Testament’s mining of the late mono and early stereo recordings from the vaults of EMI and other labels has yielded a host of valuable reissues,
Oistrakh fans no doubt will own this legendary recording of the Hindemith Violin Concerto, which is making its third appearance on CD, this time paired
Kirill Kondrashin, a legendary interpreter of Russian music, shows himself here to be an accomplished Mahlerian with this excellent performance of the First Symphony. From
