The Reiner Era II

This second volume of “Reiner Era” historical recordings, available direct from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, contains several significant additions to his repertoire, including an intensely

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Reiner Mahler 4 C

At last, Reiner’s Mahler 4th finally appears in RCA’s Living Stereo series, and just in time too, if rumors of the company’s classical corporate meltdown

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Mozart Chicago SO box C

This special edition made by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in collaboration with WFMT radio gathers together live recordings from 1950 to 1985, including two vocal

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FANTASIA 2000

Walt Disney intended Fantasia to be an ongoing work, new stories and sections replacing older ones each time it was released. Since this gradual evolution

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Barenboim Falla Teldec C

Daniel Barenboim conducts an extremely fine Three-Cornered Hat, expressively shaped from the very first “fandango” but never at the expense of the music’s folk-like innocence

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Munch/CSO Video, 1963 C

Munch’s performances when he was Music Director of the Boston Symphony could often be thrilling exhibitions of improvisation; many, in fact, were often too thrilling:

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