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Every year for the past quarter-century, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s archives are mined for a CD release to tie in with its annual fund-raising radiothon.
Sviatoslav Richter’s 1960 recording of Brahms’ Second Piano Concerto sounds fuller and more vibrant in this new transfer than in previous CD editions. Technically, Richter
Although RCA’s 1954 Rubinstein/Reiner Brahms First Concerto originally appeared in mono, an experimental stereo version surfaced in the late 1970s, offering a fuller, more three-dimensional
This is an unusual coupling of two concertos whose only real commonalities are that they both were unorthodox for their time and were the result
This recording was considered one of the outstanding Mahler Eighth’s of the LP era, at a time when it, Bernstein’s, Hatink’s, and Abravanel’s were all
Can these magnificent-sounding, scintillatingly executed 1954 benchmarks in the annals of recorded Strauss really be a half-century old? They haven’t dated a bit, except for
This is one of those proverbial “desert island” discs. Perhaps Martinon and Gould’s experience and insight as composers explains why they understood what Nielsen wanted:
Van Cliburn’s live 1958 Rachmaninov Third Concerto from Carnegie Hall makes its first appearance in RCA’s Living Stereo line. Its three-track incarnation gives a stronger
There’s little to add to the well-deserved accolades these cathartic, dazzlingly executed Strauss excerpts have garnered over the years. Because the original recordings stem from
This highly entertaining Eloquence release returns to the catalog Dohnányi’s Variations on a Nursery Song in a blazing performance by András Schiff with Georg Solti
