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Corelli had it all–movie-star looks, a true tenore di forza voice, passionate singing that drove audiences to a frenzy, and the intelligence to explore repertoire
Probably the most important aspect of DG’s Panorama series is that it makes available on CD (alas all too infrequently) recordings long thought lost forever.
These performances were recorded in the early 1980s when the Berlin Philharmonic was still very much Herbert von Karajan’s orchestra (though their relationship had begun
An earlier Double-Decca reissue included Vladimir Ashkenazy’s Philharmonia recordings of the last three Tchaikovsky symphonies. Now, for the earlier symphonies and Romeo and Juliet, Decca
Out of these two concertos, the Tchaikovsky gets sonic and interpretive first prize. Its famous opening alone encapsulates everything that’s good here: a razor-sharp orchestra
This Panorama release has quite a bit going for it: Lorin Maazel’s bracing and brilliant Firebird suite with the Berlin Radio Symphony (one of the
DG’s Mussorgsky “Panorama” scores with a hat-trick of fine performances, beginning with Giulini’s grandly severe Chicago recording of Ravel’s orchestration of “Pictures at an Exhibition.”
Maazel’s razor sharp, brilliant, and somewhat clipped delivery of Bizet’s L’Arlésienne and Jeux d’enfants Suites has the music sounding almost like one of Poulenc’s or
George Szell’s excellent Tchaikovsky Fourth Symphony, long absent from the catalog, has made a welcome return on several different labels, most recently Universal’s not overwhelmingly
The musical world isn’t exactly screaming for another disc of Wagner excerpts and overtures, but this is a good one by and large. On the
