Menu
Your guide to classical music online
Menu
Menu
Your guide to classical music online
What a frustrating artist Furtwängler was. All of these performances […]
More than anything this performance of Symphony No. 5 is
It’s amusing to remember that for much of the 1960s,
Love him or hate him, Herbert von Karajan understood that
This review could have been either very long, or very
These performances by the world’s most overrated conductor and orchestra
Stop the madness! The major labels whine that classical music
There are many myths concerning Bruckner’s finales, not the least of which is that they are somehow “problematic”. Not true. After the Fourth Symphony, each
It might have been something special to hear Karajan’s Berlin Philharmonic play Mahler’s Resurrection symphony (it recorded a spectacular Ninth with him in 1982), but
In the CD booklet note Nikolaus Harnoncourt goes into some detail about old-fashioned bowing techniques used by early conductors when performing the Brahms symphonies. He
