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Does anyone remember this 1984 recording? It’s not bad: the Cleveland Orchestra naturally plays very well. Chailly knows how to pace the work, turning in
On its original 1987 release this CD bore a sticker that shouted “Sonic Boom”, and anyone listening would conclude that this referred to the bass
For the first time, Sony BMG gathers under one roof all the Mozart studio recordings George Szell made with the Cleveland Orchestra for Columbia Masterworks.
Dohnányi’s Bruckner Fifth humanizes the work to a degree that some hard-core Brucknerians tend to dislike. With the exception of the adagio, taken at the
Recorded in 1978, Lorin Maazel’s Beethoven Ninth showcases his Cleveland Orchestra forces on powerful form, especially the assertive brass section that matches its Chicago Symphony
Excellently remixed and remastered for their first CD incarnation in 1987, the 1959-61 Fleisher/Szell Beethoven concerto collaborations subsequently appeared in Sony’s Essential Classics budget line
George Szell wasn’t known for his Tchaikovsky, and he didn’t record all that much of him. There’s a very good Fourth Symphony on Decca (with
These are extremely fine recordings, topped only by Boulez himself on DG, performances not necessarily “better”, but certainly sonically superior. Still, I retain a marginal
Decca’s welcome reprisal of these Prokofiev symphonies comes amid a general dearth of finely recorded versions of the Sixth (considered the composer’s greatest but certainly
This is a terrifically exciting performance of Orff’s popular chestnut. Tempos are swift, from the opening “O fortuna” onward. The soloists are uniformly excellent, especially
