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A potent fusion of intellectual severity and technical finesse brings rare distinction to Mitsuko Uchida’s new Philips survey of key Second Viennese School piano works.
Pierre Boulez always has done well by The Song of the Nightingale. Having recorded the complete opera too, he knows the music as well as
Now, here’s a real bargain–some of the greatest recordings of much of Mozart’s best music at the Double Decca two-for-one price. The Barry Tuckwell horn
According to an anecdote in Harold C. Schonberg’s Vladimir Horowitz biography, George Szell called Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto “a piece of s…”–and perhaps that’s true,
This release is from a series of SACDs that feature Telarc’s early Soundstream (stereo, not multi-channel) digital recordings, now for the first time heard at
This fabulous and inexpensive set of Strauss tone poems, built around Zubin Mehta’s hyper-Romantic Los Angeles recordings, should find favor with anyone who cares about
Lorin Maazel’s Symphonie fantastique, one of Telarc’s earliest recordings, sounds spectacular in this new SACD release. The enhanced clarity of the original 50khz recording projects
Former Cleveland Orchestra music director Christoph von Dohnanyi claimed his predecessor George Szell’s Beethoven cycle to be “the Bible”. Indeed, in the stereo era’s first
This is a wonderful collection in which Oliver Knussen and a clearly “up for the party” Cleveland Orchestra have a great time with Stokowski’s over-the-top
Sony’s re-launched Essential Classics series now sports rather Spartan graphics that seem to be aimed at Wal-mart shoppers rather than classical collectors. But this decidedly
