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What’s not to like? This is all lovely music, and the performances are excellent. The three outstanding items are Grieg’s Holberg Suite, Wíren’s still too-rarely-heard
Mendelssohn must be regarded as the composer who defanged minor-key music. Hardly anyone used minor keys as frequently, but at the same time so innocuously
The Chopin selections reissued here count among Bella Davidovich’s first Western recordings made for Philips in the late 1970s and early ’80s. Rehearing them confirms
Neville Marriner’s Planets emphasizes color over drama and thus offers us an opportunity to examine Holst’s amazing score in detail. The prominence of the timpani
These three works all demonstrate Paul Chihara’s characterful combination of simple melody with cutting-edge orchestral sonorities. He’s particularly fond of atmospheric tone clusters for strings
This six-disc set gives you most of Tippett, aside from the operas, large choral works, and some late orchestral and chamber pieces. With the exception
When this recording was made 40 years ago it had a lot going for it, and in many ways it still does. The three vocalists
Neville Marriner’s tried and trusty early-’70s recordings of the earliest Mozart symphonies, originally released on Philips LPs, are reappearing on four PentaTone SACDs. As is
In the early 1950s Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau began what would become a long and distinguished career as one of his generation’s foremost Bach interpreters. By 1981,
The most spectacular performance here, Vladimir Ashkenazy’s nerve-tingling Sibelius En Saga with the Philharmonia Orchestra, hardly fits the “Nordic Suites” category of Eloquence’s title, any
