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Benno Moisieiwtsch had a knack for making Liszt’s more flamboyant concoctions sound noble, poetic, and utterly important, as you can readily hear throughout the Hungarian
Here is the fourth notable CD transfer of Joseph Szigeti’s great 1928 Brahms Concerto, and the second remastered by Mark Obert-Thorn. If Obert-Thorn’s earlier Pearl
If a no-name pianist and fair-to-middling conductor and orchestra turned in a recording of Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto like this today, no one would give
Barbirolli’s Haffner Symphony offers a lively and stylish interpretation, full of warmth and energy, assuming you can accept cavernous 1967 Royal Albert Hall recorded sound
André Navarra’s playing is remembered today for the force of his irrepressible personality put in service of the demands of the music. He was highly
This collection exactly duplicates the 1905 concert in which these works were premiered. The “Lieder-Abend” introduced a new musical format: the orchestral song. In recreating
These performances stand as a tribute to John Barbirolli’s heroic, decades-long effort to raise the playing standards of the Hallé Orchestra from fourth rate to
This concert, captured in May, 1970 in okay stereo sound just 10 weeks before the conductor’s death, has been kicking around for a while from
It’s important to remember just how “local” the record business was in the 1940s and ’50s. There were no great, international entertainment conglomerates as we
Colin Matthews’ musically undistinguished and pointless addition to Holst’s masterpiece demonstrates the triumph of the unmusical. After all, the fact that Pluto hadn’t been discovered
