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Pianist Youri Egorov first came to international prominence as the clear favorite among the 1977 Van Cliburn Competition’s semi-finalists. When Egorov failed to make the
I’m not certain why it took almost 15 years from its date of performance (November, 1992) for this to be released (it was taped in
The main reason for owning this Siegfried is for the work of tenor Jean Cox in the title role. Ignored by the record companies, the
You want to love this set. Sawallisch is a reliable, earnest, musicianly conductor of the “Kappelmeister” type, and of course the Concertgebouw remains one of
I have to begin this review on a personal note. When I was 14 or 15 I had the good fortune to witness the premiere
There’s more logic to this coupling than it might at first appear: both symphonies combine the traditional multi-movement format into a single continuous whole, though
Aside from a refusal on the part of conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch to use rubato, and apart from his genuinely ferocious way with the score, this
These famous and rightly acclaimed performances need little recommendation from me. Annie Fischer’s small discography for EMI has not been as well treated as it
Wolfgang Sawallisch offers a varied if exclusively Germanic program for this live Salzburg Festival concert from 1973. The opening Schubert Symphony No. 3 flows with
Here’s a near-novelty: the three-separate-act version of Dutchman, recorded on stage at La Scala in 1966. There is no information provided in the two-page leaflet
