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This disc offers more than you might expect. Rafael Kubelik’s DG recording of the Serenade for Strings always has been one of the best: shapely,
I have very little to add to Jed Distler’s wholly positive comments on these masterful performances, originally issued in a set containing all of the
Now, here’s a real bargain–some of the greatest recordings of much of Mozart’s best music at the Double Decca two-for-one price. The Barry Tuckwell horn
Mendelssohn has a reputation as the polite classicist among members of the first wave of German Romantic-era composers, and performers normally can’t go wrong in
Lazar Berman and Peter Maag aim for maximum vulgarity in Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1–not necessarily a bad thing in this blatantly self-aggrandizing work. In
This is a good Orfeo, an amalgam of the original (1762) version and later, attractive additions. It also includes the bravura, razzle-dazzle aria that ends
Peter Maag was a wonderful Mozart conductor, and his sympathetic way with the music is much in evidence in these live broadcasts of works dating
Recorded live in 1967, this begins poorly with a pokey, old-fashioned reading of the overture, but it quickly picks up steam as the trio of
This disc, featuring two live performances from 1967 and 1982, does no credit to Peter Maag’s artistic reputation. The first-movement allegro of the symphony sounds
There is great personality and humanity in these performances. They recall those of Jochum perhaps most of all, though with a touch more vigor in
