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Nigel Kennedy and friends deserve credit for attempting to go beyond The Four Seasons and introduce listeners to some of the countless equally fine concertos
Messiaen’s music is almost performer-proof. I say this not to be critical, nor to damn this mostly excellent interpretation with faint praise. It’s just that
Of all Tchaikovsky B-flat minor Piano Concerto recordings by major artists on major labels, the 1970 Weissenberg/Karajan EMI traversal ranks among the worst. The fault
These are splendid Wagner performances, full of guts and devoid of the fussiness and overly smooth legato that so often make Karajan’s recordings a chore.
Herbert von Karajan was so prolific a recording artist that proof is easily available to either support or disprove his credentials as a “great conductor
This magnificent tribute to a great artist who died tragically young belongs in the collections of, well, everyone, and there’s so much to enjoy that
Sony’s reissue of Midori’s Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto reveals a musical sophistication that belies the violinist’s then-teenage status. Hers is a fully formed interpretation mating virtuoso
Midori’s Bartók Violin Concerto No. 2 hails from early in her performing career when the very fact that the teenage violinist met the work’s daunting
Lorin Maazel’s powerfully rendered Wagner program follows the tradition of Karajan and Tennstedt in exploiting the Berlin Philharmonic’s idiomatic Wagner playing style–mainly the bright, sharply
This wonderful 1966 recording offers some refreshingly “old-school” Mozart–that is, the kind we used to hear before the emergence of the “authentic” style. Karl Böhm
