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This is the first recording of Mahler’s rescoring of Schumann’s Second and Fourth Symphonies that shows what an improvement these versions really are over the
Music lovers who have trouble warming to the dense, upholstered sound world of Brahms’ four symphonies will find his two early Serenades unusually tuneful, texturally
Kurt Masur has enjoyed the good fortune of recording two complete Beethoven cycles with the Gewandhaus Orchestra for Philips, for no other reason than conductor
A student perusing the scores of these symphonies would find this recording useful. Kurt Masur’s performances are solidly by-the-book, apparently striving to present the music
The Fourth is the best offering in Kurt Masur’s rather tepid 1970s Brahms cycle. There’s a marked increase in energy compared with the first three
Conductor Kenneth Schermerhorn once remarked how Brahms’ First Symphony was too often played “in a bearded way”, as if composed by the bewhiskered, elderly Brahms
This is the best available modern recording of Dvorák’s three gorgeous Slavonic Rhapsodies, music that’s totally neglected in the concert hall and nearly so on
I vividly remember a Hindemith memorial concert given at Yale University in the late 1970s that featured an all-too-rare opportunity to hear in concert these
Kurt Masur’s Bruckner Symphony cycle enters a market overgrown with complete sets, a situation that was impossible to imagine at the end of the LP
Here’s your basic, no-nonsense Ninth. Kurt Masur’s moderate tempos and generally-accepted standards of phrasing and orchestral balance (the strings predominate) place this reading squarely in
