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This coupling duplicates an excellent Vengerov/Rostropovich disc on Warner, and it couldn’t be more different. The Russians are slower, heavier, but also more manic in
Just as the major labels no longer represent the best (or even the most) of what is happening today in classical music recordings, neither do
You would think that a conductor who has been given several decades to record multiple versions of the Mahler symphonies with the orchestras of Chicago,
This is a disgusting performance. Granted, Schubert’s Ninth is a very difficult work to play and conduct, but there is no excuse for treating it
It helps Simon Rattle and his Berlin players that Christian Thielemann and the Vienna Philharmonic (on DG) already have set the bar in Ein Heldenleben
This release brings us Karl Böhm’s acclaimed 1960s Mozart symphony recordings, newly packaged for this year’s celebrations of the composer’s 250th birthday. In terms of
Géza Anda (1921-1976) has received considerable posthumous attention on disc. The bulk of his 1950s EMI catalog is available on Testament, while DG reissued his
I’m never quite sure exactly who these raid-the-archives Christmas music compilations are for, but if you enjoyed DG’s earlier “Original Masters” release, The Christmas Album
New recordings of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto appear with such regularity these days that it’s easy to take them for granted. After all, what can any
DG’s marketing never ceases to amaze. Here we have a disc containing 27 minutes of Sibelius, and 40 minutes of Wagner. The front of this
