
DG continues its protracted CD release of Rafael Kubelik’s 1970s Beethoven Symphony cycle–a series unique for its use of nine different orchestras from Europe and
EMI’s inclusion of Paul Kletzki among the elite podium masters represented in its Great Conductors of the 20th Century series surely is one of its
This collection reveals Zubin Mehta’s considerable skills as a Tchaikovsky conductor. He excels at projecting the drama and color of the symphonies while keeping a
It’s much easier to perform music that’s close to our time; the further into the past you go, the more difficult it becomes… says violinist
This set is a really good deal, even if Sony’s premature discontinuation of the Bernstein Century series (since revived, but only in France) prevented assembly
As the advertising slogan has it: What becomes a legend most? Well, if it’s a legendary singer the answer is a re-release of her best
Mehta’s Mahler Fourth, freed from its horrible, low-level LP transfer (it was, if I’m not mistaken, Decca/London’s first-ever digital release) comes across as what my
Now this is one exciting 1812! Zubin Mehta plays this warhorse for all it’s worth, from the urgent cantabile of the opening strings right through
Although Eloquence already has released a splendid Concerto for Orchestra from Antal Dorati with the Concertgebouw, this Mehta/Israel Philharmonic performance has every bit as much
Zubin Mehta’s and Arthur Rubinstein’s single recorded collaboration was made very late in the pianists life (the artist’s respective contracts made earlier joint projects impossible).
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