
Collectors who know Rudolf Kempe through his EMI Dresden Staatskapelle recordings will likely be disappointed by this BBC broadcast concert. This orchestra is simply not
Here’s another mixed bag from the Disky Communications reissue label, Royal Long Players, entitled “Great Violin Concertos”. That much, at least, is true; the same
Recorded way back in 1971, this very fine Bruckner Eighth (Haas Edition) has enjoyed a checkered career on several labels. Perhaps this time it will
Rudolf Kempe’s benchmark Dresden Strauss recordings from the 1970s were previously available in three triple-CD budget boxed sets. The nine discs are now repackaged in
The Dresden Staatskapelle is 450 years old (actually the date is meaningless: orchestras as we know them today have only been around for about a
Rudolph Kempe leads a grand and ceremonial reading of Janácek’s Glagolitic Mass with tempos tending to the slow side, imparting a feeling of solemnity to
Despite the virtues of Rudolf Kempe’s vibrant, persuasive 1965 BBC Mahler First, you have to wonder if its release will appeal to anyone other than