
For reasons best known only to themselves, Universal has decided to re-release this disc containing the two best performances available of Bernstein’s Serenade and Songfest
These three works for violin and orchestra clearly demonstrate both the richness and diversity of styles among American composers, and Gidon Kremer’s advocacy of the
They’re still talking about Bernstein’s “Espansiva” in Denmark, and with good reason. While better known for his Mahler, Bernstein’s advocacy of Nielsen arguably achieved just
Although William Kapell left studio recordings of these concertos in the course of his tragically short career, these live counterparts, issued for the first time,
Bernstein’s Brahms always has been a source of some controversy, though this earlier symphony cycle is not as mannered and perverse (or just plain slow)
Always full of surprises, Leonard Bernstein turns in one of the best ever recordings of Bizet’s delightful early symphony. The performance is vivacious, unaffected, graced
Leonard Bernstein’s second Brahms cycle, with the Vienna Philharmonic for Deutsche Grammophon, featured some of the slowest, most self-indulgent music making of his career, though
Leonard Bernstein recorded two outstanding versions of Shostakovich’s First Symphony, one with the New York Philharmonic (Sony) and the other with the Chicago Symphony (DG),
The best thing about this Elgar Panorama is that it restores Leonard Bernstein’s colorful–and controversial–Enigma Variations to the catalog. From the day it was released
If you feel that Franck’s symphony is a decadent, heart-on-sleeve, at times tasteless relic of post-Wagnerian romanticism, then this isn’t the performance for you. It