
Pierre Boulez’s Roméo et Juliette is brilliantly played by the Cleveland Orchestra and conducted with a transparency that allows details to emerge clearly, even in
Dohnanyi leads a Beethoven Ninth distinguished by its forward focus, visceral energy, and most certainly the Cleveland Orchestra’s exquisitely polished and boldly projected playing. The
Sony Masterworks’ new “Expanded Edition” offers well-known recordings newly remastered using DSD technology, along with “bonus” material extending the playing time of the original LP
Lorin Maazel’s bright and brash performances of Rhapsody in Blue, Cuban Overture, and American in Paris demonstrate his special affinity for the music of George
George Szell certainly merits inclusion in a series devoted to the last century’s great conductors, but this collection tells us little we didn’t already know
The blurb on the backside of the CD, quoted from a review of the original recording in 1976, says everything: “There really is no point
Believe it or not, this reissue marks the first time David Oistrakh’s 1969 Brahms Concerto with George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra appears on CD
Decca’s Ives orchestral music set makes for an attractive and inexpensive way to collect these startlingly original works. Zubin Mehta’s recording of Symphonies Nos. 1
Szell’s miraculously detailed and immaculately phrased recording of the complete Slavonic Dances has seldom been out of the catalog, though its sonics have never matched
This stereo-only SACD offers the first presentation of these early Telarc recordings transferred from the original 50 kHz digital masters, which means that you now