
Leonard Bernstein was a tireless champion of American music during his conducting career, presenting many world-premieres and leaving an impressive body of recordings–most for Columbia
Sony/BMG’s Zubin Mehta Complete Columbia Album Collection opens with his
This is “big band” Haydn played and conducted in the most stylish, unaffected, and enjoyable way. The program itself is delightful: Haydn’s hilarious, six-movement “Distracted”
Only the release is posthumous; the performance, obviously, took place
First, let’s understand why this reissue is a typical example
Kletzki made some fine Mahler recordings for EMI (Symphony No.
Bernstein’s Universal boxes have, on the whole, been more intelligently
Who knew when Sony’s Bernstein: The Symphony Edition came out
Slow tempos characterize the first half of Zubin Mehta’s Gurrelieder (his second recorded version; the first was with the New York Philharmonic for Sony). Of
This is a great, inexpensive way to acquire first class