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[Update: Essentially there are three recordings of the Ninth that […]
There are two prime candidates for reference recording in Mahler’s
Bernard Haitink conducts a beautiful performance, magnificently played, particularly considering its live provenance. The first movement has plenty of character, thanks to the RCO’s delicious
With the “Philips Early Years” edition of this set gone, probably forever, MHS offers the only way to acquire the essential collection of George Szell’s
This 1975 Concertgebouw performance of Mahler’s Song of the Earth, led by Bernard Haitink with soloists Janet Baker and James King, rates as the finest
Given Rafal Blechacz’s first place victory in the 2005 Warsaw International Chopin Competition, it’s inevitable that his first orchestral effort for DG offers both Chopin
The ensemble playing by the Concertgebouw Orchestra on this recording is so fabulous that it almost makes you forget a couple of trouble spots. But
The DSD-mastered surround mix on this hybrid SACD release captures more of the sound of the symphony than I have ever heard (for a review
At 86, Arthur Rubinstein (the pianist always spelled his first name with an “h” in America) still played beautifully, as his 1973 Concertgebouw performances of
This is one of Riccardo Chailly’s finest recordings, and a wonderful concept: 1920s modernism as embodied in three very major works, one Russian, one French,
