
Mstislav Rostropovich not only is one of the major musical personalities (and most gifted performers) of any era, but he also has enriched the cello
My colleague Dan Davis raved about Volume 1 in this series, and I find no reason to question his judgment. This disc contains the remaining
There are finer recordings around than this slightly droopy performance of d’Indy’s Symphony on a French Mountain Air, particularly Dutoit/Thibaudet on Decca, featuring much better
As serious record collectors will already know, Serge Baudo made some outstanding recordings of French repertoire with the Czech Philharmonic (the Honegger symphonies in particular),
Serge Baudo and the Lyon symphony took Dutilleux’s First Symphony on an very successful tour, and I was happy to be able to see this
Can you ever have too many Charles Munch Roussel recordings? Okay, it’s a niche, but a very exciting one. The great French conductor’s Bacchus et
This is one of the finest Debussy recordings around. It combines two performances from the 1960s (the Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun and
This set was the Saint-Saëns piano concerto reference edition of choice until EMI remade all five works with pianist Jean-Philippe Collard and conductor André Previn.