
This set is a classic, and the only reason to steer clear of it is the uniformly poor sound. Maria Callas and Leonard Bernstein rarely
Here’s a real bargain: three LPs-worth of excellent Berlioz performances on two CDS, offered for the price of one! Leonard Bernstein’s dramatic yet classically structured
The title of this CD is somewhat misleading. It is music of “our time” for the 1960s, when experimental music was in vogue. It seems
There are very few recordings of Baroque vocal music in the Bernstein discography, to which most listeners will probably say “Thank God!” But look at
A “pops” concert from 100 years ago might have included tuneful Central European chestnuts such as the ones on this disc. Would the orchestra have
This disc contains the CD premiere of Leonard Bernstein’s 1958 recording of Tchaikovsky’s Fourth. The Royal Edition previously offered his remake of a decade later,
Here is yet another remastering of this classic performance, which from a purely orchestral perspective is Bernstein’s finest of the work. There’s little doubt that
This 1961 Tchaikovsky concerto had the misfortune to be released in the wake of more compelling and better recorded stereo versions involving Gilels, Cliburn, and
At first glance, it may seem odd to couple Mahler’s most exalted work with one that ranks among his most personal and tragic. Sony could
This new remastering of Bernstein’s 1964 New York Philharmonic Beethoven 1st boasts greater presence, definition, and clarity than its previous CD incarnations. After an unusually