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Carlos Kleiber’s Beethoven Seventh and the first of Herbert von Karajan’s three Strauss Don Quixotes (with cellist Pierre Fournier portraying the befuddled Knight) are time-honored
The Mozart C major Concerto K. 467 on Disc One of this two-disc set is released for the first time. It offers a glimpse of
This 1978 recording of the four-act version of Verdi’s Don Carlo has always been controversial. Many have found it too symphonic and indeed, Herbert von
This is the Tristan that won’t go away. I’ve never met anyone who owns it who actually listens to it, but most people praise it
It’s difficult to believe that it’s been 20 years since Simon Rattle first recorded Deryck Cooke’s treacherous performing version of Mahler’s 10th Symphony with the
Hindemith’s seven Kammermusik pieces don’t seem to last long in the catalog (at least here in the U.S. where titles get deleted unless they go
This second set of Schubert symphonies with Lorin Maazel and the Berlin Philharmonic unites three of the most popular ones. The congenial Fifth receives a
Rafael Kubelik brings to Schumann’s last two symphonies the same qualities he did to the First and Second. He suffuses the music with an engagingly
These are warmly affectionate, poetic, yet red-blooded readings. Rafael Kubelik approaches Schumann from the opposite direction of George Szell, who maintains a classical rigour throughout
Pierre Fournier’s accounts of the Lalo and Saint-Saëns cello concertos never have been surpassed in their elegance, musicality, naturalness of phrasing, and sense of logic.
