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Normally you’d expect a performance of the Beethoven Violin Concerto’s first movement lasting 27 minutes and nine seconds to be on the slow side. Timings,
The Dvorák Concerto always has been on the fringe of the repertoire, never matching the Tchaikovsky or the other big guns in the Romantic concerto
Re-issued to mark Schiff’s 50th birthday, these are in the main admirable performances, despite Schiff’s sometimes detached manner. There could, for example, be a more
There’s an unwritten rule that many artists do their best work in repertoire that seems atypical of their style or predilections. Such is the case
Kurt Masur leads a devotional account of the Missa solemnis, and many listeners will miss the “heaven-storming” qualities so evident in recordings by Bernstein, Klemperer,
Kurt Masur’s 1992 Avery Fisher Hall account of César Franck’s D minor symphony powerfully underlines the work’s structural details but leaves you feeling that the
Here’s yet another reissue of Kurt Masur’s 1973 Beethoven Ninth, this time as a single budget-priced disc. It’s nothing special. For starters, the Allegro ma
Understandably, the Béroff/Masur Prokofiev concerto cycle for EMI, licensed by MHS, has been overlooked in contrast to its Ashkenazy/Previn rival on Decca. Yet I’ve long
Whatever virtues Fazil Say might bring to Bach or Mozart, this release demonstrates beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is way out of
While Kurt Masur’s new Shostakovich “Leningrad Symphony” may not displace memories of Bernstein, Järvi, Kondrashin, or Mravinsky in this monumental work, it’s still a highly
