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Eat your heart out, Simon Rattle. Just listen to the quality of the orchestral playing in the Prelude, or La Mer, and compare this to
There’s a pernicious myth that music critics lie in wait for artists to trip up so that they have something to complain about. In reality,
Something is odd here. The titles of the works are given only in German, and so are the notes. Is EMI merely importing product with
Deutsche Grammophon has reissued these catalog staples umpteen times in various couplings, and here they are again. Critical consensus remains split over the 1962 Karajan/Richter/Vienna
Herbert von Karajan’s 1964 Schubert Eighth and 1968 Ninth receive their best remasterings to date via DG’s 2008 Master Recordings project, launched to commemorate the
Yundi Li turns in a scorching performance of Prokofiev’s most exciting piano concerto. In the first movement not even monster banger Alexander Toradze throws off
This 1959 Ein Heldenleben, the first of Herbert von Karajan’s three stereo recordings of the work, has been hailed as the best. Not that that’s
To mark the centennial of Grieg’s death in 1907, EMI has reissued Leif Ove Andsnes’ 2002 A minor concerto with Mariss Jansons and the Berlin
This is a very fine disc. Carl Nielsen’s ferociously difficult Clarinet Concerto presents no serious technical challenges to Sabine Meyer, who plays it with beautiful
Aus Italien is such a beautiful and enjoyable work that it’s really amazing that it hasn’t been performed more often. On balance, this is its
