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A student perusing the scores of these symphonies would find this recording useful. Kurt Masur’s performances are solidly by-the-book, apparently striving to present the music
The Fourth is the best offering in Kurt Masur’s rather tepid 1970s Brahms cycle. There’s a marked increase in energy compared with the first three
Conductor Kenneth Schermerhorn once remarked how Brahms’ First Symphony was too often played “in a bearded way”, as if composed by the bewhiskered, elderly Brahms
This is the best available modern recording of Dvorák’s three gorgeous Slavonic Rhapsodies, music that’s totally neglected in the concert hall and nearly so on
Kurt Masur’s Bruckner Symphony cycle enters a market overgrown with complete sets, a situation that was impossible to imagine at the end of the LP
Astute pianophiles may recognize some of the live performances gathered here from earlier CD incarnations on (among others) the Russian Revelation and Yedang labels. On
This was Yo-Yo Ma’s second go at the Dvorák Cello Concerto for Sony, and it marked a big improvement over the rather lackluster recording he
Kurt Masur’s steady and dependable Beethoven is a known quantity via his two complete symphony cycles on Philips. These new performances, recorded live in Paris
Here’s your basic, no-nonsense Ninth. Kurt Masur’s moderate tempos and generally-accepted standards of phrasing and orchestral balance (the strings predominate) place this reading squarely in
Although EMI has two “superstar” Beethoven Triple Concerto recordings to its credit (Oistrakh/Rostropovich/Richter and Perlman/Ma/Barenboim), I don’t necessarily prefer them to the label’s less-celebrated (and
