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For this release, Mark Obert-Thorn has gathered all of Mengelberg’s […]
Willem Mengelberg’s freakish and often marginally musical distortions of tempo
When the disgraced Willem Mengelberg, banished in the late 1940s
You would think that the reason to get this disc
This two-disc set contains all of Willem Mengelberg’s New York
During the early days of CDs, the Philips label’s Japanese
Despite the generally lousy sonics, there are some treasurable performances
This recording of Mengelberg’s 40th annual St. Matthew Passion Easter concert, performed on Palm Sunday, 1939, has held legendary status among the conductor’s fans. I
All the selections on this disc are undoubtedly familiar to Willem Mengelberg collectors. The main question, of course, is how Mark Obert-Thorn’s new transfers compare
APR’s second volume devoted to Cor de Groot’s early recordings unearths some real rarities. A 1937 Beethoven Appassionata, for example, stems from a privately made
