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When first issued in 1985, this performance of the Seventh raised eyebrows for its exceptionally slow tempos in the outer movements. It was a milestone
This is a marvelous album for lovers of masterfully refined singing. Léopold Simoneau possessed a voice that, while not enthralling in its power, was captivating
This Panorama release has quite a bit going for it: Lorin Maazel’s bracing and brilliant Firebird suite with the Berlin Radio Symphony (one of the
A noisier yet brighter and more colorful transfer of Claudio Arrau’s live 1950 Chopin F minor Concerto with Fritz Busch and the New York Philharmonic
Ernst Toch’s Second and Third Symphonies explore his chromatic, gnarly, mature idiom, which nonetheless manages to maintain clear melodic definition and fairly secure tonal moorings.
You might use this disc to play a game with an unsuspecting visitor. Put it on, tell him it is a pair of newly discovered
Now reissued on a single CD, Chailly’s Mahler Tenth has certainly withstood the test of time since its original release in 1988. Simon Rattle’s new
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
Pianist Lubka Kolessa was born in Galacia in 1902 and studied with the noted Liszt pupils Eugen D’Albert and Emil von Sauer. During the war
These performances, now 40-ish years old, are still delightfully fresh; and frankly, despite all of the scholarship that has gone on since and the subsequent
