
Leonard Slatkin’s Tchaikovsky symphony cycle was, on the whole, good […]
Despite outstanding recordings, indeed reference versions, by the likes of
There are at least four recordings of Tchaikovsky’s First Piano
Listening to these performances by Stewart Goodyear, the word that kept coming to mind was “impressive”. And Goodyear does indeed impress with his bullseye accuracy,
At least one part of 19th-century Viennese critic Eduard Hanslick’s
This twelve-disc set contains an unfortunate number of performances of
No, the world is not exactly screaming for another recording of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, even one as attractive and energetic as this; but happily Vadim
These two lovely symphonies certainly belong in the collection of anyone who cares about Russian symphonic music, though the performances on display here are far
It’s remarkable how Nikolai Miaskovsky’s final symphony, composed in 1949, sounds as if it had been written even earlier than his 1923 Symphony No. 6.
Behold the David Oistrakh Warner Remastered Edition, the Oistrakh box