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This recording’s severely limited dynamic range gives the impression of a rather small chorus, in line with today’s authentic practices, but then you realize that
Comparatively speaking, there’s nothing particularly characterful here. Jascha Horenstein paces the first movement with urgency and clarity, generating considerable excitement at the climaxes–but then, so
Those Bachs–J.C., W.F., and old Johann Nicolaus–were some funny guys! (Sorry, no P.D.Q. here.) It seems when this well-extended family got together–grandfathers, uncles, sons, brothers,
Although these are mere chips from the master’s workshop, insatiable Puccini fans will want every scrap they can get. To those not so addicted, the
Gottfried Stölzel, an almost exact contemporary of J.S. Bach, was a remarkably skilled composer, his fertile melodic imagination balanced by a keen sense of how
Perhaps the main reason you’d want this disc would be as a souvenir of the Otto Klemperer Memorial Concert, held on January 14, 1974 (assuming,
John Eliot Gardiner makes heavy weather of Bruckner’s D minor Mass, an already weighty work that in this performance won’t win many new adherents, even
Collectors who own EMI’s out-of-print edition of Reginald Goodall’s live Rhinegold need not acquire Chandos’ 24-bit remastering, which offers slight rather than major sonic improvement.
This compilation of hand-picked favorites from the catalog of lutenist/guitarist Daniel Benko (hand-picked, that is, by Benko himself), is not, as the title suggests, a
Contractual problems prevented Rafael Kubelik’s 1967 Bavarian Radio recording of Wagner’s Die Meistersinger from being released until its appearance on the Calig label several years
