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Webern’s complete orchestral output fits comfortably on a single CD, with plenty of room for his orchestration of the six-voice Ricercare from Bach’s Musical Offering.
Vladimir Ashkenazy’s late-1980s Beethoven Concerto cycle gains a new lease on catalog life via Arkivmusic.com’s on-demand reissue program. Although the pianist conducts from the keyboard,
Back from the wilderness of Sony’s Essential Classics series, and remastered in nice, clear stereo along with Bernstein’s set of Paris Symphonies for this same
No major-label artists in the recording heyday of the late 1980s and early ’90s received shabbier treatment than Dohnányi and the Cleveland Orchestra. Sure, they
I had the great privilege of being present at a Carnegie Hall concert by these forces featuring the two works on this disc, along with
Given the well-deserved attention focused upon Leon Fleisher as a 2007 Kennedy Center honoree and for his recent return to two-handed piano playing, it seems
Franz Welser-Möst’s new Beethoven Ninth, his first recording for Deutsche Grammophon, oddly sounds as if it had been made 20 years ago, so unaware is
Christoph von Dohnányi’s lean and athletic Dvorák Symphony No. 6 is at the opposite pole from the warm, romantic style typified by Karel Ancerl (type
This Stravinsky set of ballet music has it all: a conductor famous for his attention to detail, world-class orchestras, audiophile sound, and a price that
Take a major label’s best-looking pianist, research his back catalog, identify all of the repertoire linked with film soundtracks, then slap on a cover photo
