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Although EMI has two “superstar” Beethoven Triple Concerto recordings to its credit (Oistrakh/Rostropovich/Richter and Perlman/Ma/Barenboim), I don’t necessarily prefer them to the label’s less-celebrated (and
Re-issued to mark Schiff’s 50th birthday, these are in the main admirable performances, despite Schiff’s sometimes detached manner. There could, for example, be a more
No sooner than this 1950 Tristan makes its CD debut on Preiser than Archipel releases it too. In addition, Archipel claims its edition to be
Vinyl mavens of the obsessive operatic kind may remember the Urania LP edition of this 1950 recording (whose cover is reproduced here), billed as the
Here’s yet another reissue of Kurt Masur’s 1973 Beethoven Ninth, this time as a single budget-priced disc. It’s nothing special. For starters, the Allegro ma
The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra is the caretaker of a long-standing central European Beethoven tradition that cultivates qualities of full-throated sonority, clear textures, and rock-solid rhythms.
This is one of the best examples of mood programming I’ve ever seen. The gentle, exotic strains of Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a
It’s not every orchestral showpiece disc that begins with Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, and this stirring performance sets up an expectation that is not
Understandably, the Béroff/Masur Prokofiev concerto cycle for EMI, licensed by MHS, has been overlooked in contrast to its Ashkenazy/Previn rival on Decca. Yet I’ve long
