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The principal attraction of this Mahler Seventh for many may well be the playing of the Czech Philharmonic, which effortlessly sustains its reputation as one
The Sinfonietta was recorded with the Czech Philharmonic in 1946, just two years before Rafael Kubelik made his fateful decision to leave his homeland (to
Libor Pešek’s Dvorák cycle, recorded by Virgin between 1987 and 1996, has now been re-packaged into an eight-CD budget box. Most of the competitive sets,
These Wagner performances sound a bit dated now (they come from 1960), but feature lively performances in that sensible, musicianly, middle-of-the-road German tradition of which
So many of today’s violin concerto recordings sound artificial because of their spotlit miking of the violin, making it sound gargantuan in relation to the
Zdenek Košler’s Shostakovich Ninth is a classic. He perfectly realizes the music’s ingenious fusion of circus and military elements, from the quick-step march of the
This lovely Schubert Ninth has been kicking around for a while, thanks to Supraphon’s policy in Cold War days of co-producing recordings with other labels,
Kobayashi’s Mahler Seventh is the slowest since Otto Klemperer’s (though not quite so extreme) and shares many of the same virtues and vices. The first
The late Antonio de Almeida was, unsurprisingly, a terrific conductor of French music, and with the Czech Philharmonic’s proven credentials in this repertoire (remember its
This is one of the finest Debussy recordings around. It combines two performances from the 1960s (the Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun and
