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Mstislav Rostropovich’s finest recording of the First Cello Concerto remains the one he made with Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra in the composer’s presence.
What more do you say about a musician who’s already stormed and conquered the world of Baroque violin repertoire and performance? About to embark on
The teenaged Yehudi Menuhin’s Bach concerto recordings were first transferred to CD by EMI in the late 1980s and have also surfaced on numerous independent
This CD presents two violin concertos written within the past 20 years. The Adams work is the most recent, dating from 1993, after the composer
I yield to no one in my admiration and respect for the late Sándor Végh, whose place in chamber music history is secured through his
In the booklet notes accompanying his recordings of Bach’s Solo Sonatas and Partitas, violinist Benjamin Schimd stresses the music’s harmonic richness as the basis of
These live Beethoven performances can be subtitled “A Tale of Two Toscaninis”. At first hearing, this 1942 New York Philharmonic broadcast transcription of the Triple
These ageless performances have been wonderfully remastered using 24-bit technology, which gives even more clarity, depth, and detail to the already excellent 1973-74 recordings. Itzhak
This disc is a lot of fun, even if the music is somewhat uneven in quality. The main offering, José Serebrier’s Partita (subtitled Symphony No.
First the good news: Yehudi Menuhin and Wanda Landowska’s powerfully inflected Bach E major Sonata, recorded in 1945, has never sounded better on disc. Andrew
