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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
Neville Marriner’s Planets emphasizes color over drama and thus offers us an opportunity to examine Holst’s amazing score in detail. The prominence of the timpani
The two performances on this CD reflect Carlo Maria Giulini’s late conducting style, with slowish tempos matched to a directness of expression and solidity of
Bernard Haitink’s 1980 Manfred was the prize of his Concertgebouw/Tchaikovsky symphony cycle. Riccardo Chailly’s 1987 effort with the same orchestra, while very good, doesn’t quite
This disc is more valuable as a memento of just how characterful the Concertgebouw sounded in the 1960s and ’70s rather than as a particularly
Australian Eloquence can boast what arguably is the most intelligent reissue program available today. From Universal’s huge back catalog nearly every release offers a well-chosen
There’s a certain logic in pairing these two works, in that both (sort of) reflect a French composer’s take on a liturgical subject–but let’s face
Collector alert: This is not yet another reissue of Colin Davis’ Concertgebouw recording of Dvorák’s last symphony, but Antal Dorati’s from 1959. It’s worth remembering
So many recordings came and went during the past couple of decades that it’s hard to remember which ones were really good. Certainly this Petrushka
Although Leonard Bernstein had a reputation as a heavy-duty interventionist in music of the late romantic period, even in his late phase he never lost
