FOLLOW GOETHE

Sometimes a theme album isn’t a good idea, especially when the range of material required by the concept doesn’t uniformly suit the performer. In this

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Weill Atherton/DG

Kurt Weill’s collaborations with Bertolt Brecht in the late 1920s and early ’30s captured the angst, despair, and decadence of post-Weimar Germany with determined zest

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Nielsen Symphonies 2

This is the second of two Double Decca “twofers” that contain Herbert Blomstedt’s celebrated second complete cycle of the six Carl Nielsen symphonies. The first

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Stravinsky Craft Vol. 3

Volume Three of Robert Craft’s Stravinsky series for Koch duplicates repertoire on his similar series for MusicMasters–this latter effort appearing to have ended somewhat short

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Mitropoulos Mahler 8

This first authorized release of Dimitri Mitropoulos’ 1960 Salzburg Mahler Eighth (a work the conductor did not record commercially) is refurbished from the original Austrian

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