
Zubin Mehta’s “Enigma” rivals the best. Highlights include a luminous “CAE” (the composer’s wife, Alice), a charming Ysobel, a rollicking Troyte, a lofty Nimrod, a
Deutsche Grammophon has at long last begun to reissue Rafael Kubelik’s 1970’s Beethoven cycle. While all three of Herbert von Karajan’s increasingly processed and denatured
Pierre Boulez takes a fresh approach to Mahler’s much-recorded Fourth Symphony. Eschewing the received Mahlerian style, Boulez instead views this echt-18th century work composed at
George Szell’s Prokofiev Fifth is a swift, exciting performance that offers predictably razor-sharp orchestral execution. The recording, though, which dates from the late 1950s, is