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I wager that few Western collectors in the 1970s knew […]
Jessye Norman’s justly celebrated recording of Richard Strauss’ Four Last
At time of writing this performance is still available, so
Return with me, if you will, to those halcyon days when men were men and communists were taken seriously. Back in the 1970s, Germany had
My youthful memory of Misha Dichter’s 1977 Brahms D minor concerto with Kurt Masur on LP was that of an agreeable, well played, middle-of-the-road, and
This disc features the “Gewandhaus Sound” at its best–the warm, dark sonority of the strings supplemented by characterful woodwinds and bucolic horns. The only things
Music lovers who have trouble warming to the dense, upholstered sound world of Brahms’ four symphonies will find his two early Serenades unusually tuneful, texturally
Like other conductors before him (most notably Karajan), Kurt Masur plays the introduction to Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 as if it were a movement all
Yet another orchestra launches its own label, with mixed results. These two live performances aren’t bad, but neither are they necessary. The First Symphony comes
Kurt Masur has enjoyed the good fortune of recording two complete Beethoven cycles with the Gewandhaus Orchestra for Philips, for no other reason than conductor
