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This seven-disc collection commemorates pianist Alicia de Larrocha’s 80th birthday and retirement from the concert stage with an overview of her Decca recordings from the
These performances are uniformly outstanding. Alicia de Larrocha’s natural feel for the subtlety and elegance of French music serves her particularly well in both Ravel
This is not going to be an “objective” review, because I specifically asked that Australian Eloquence issue this compilation for the express purpose of bringing
This is the second volume of soprano Christine Brewer’s arias in English for Chandos. I thought the first one (type Q9665 in Search Reviews) was
This was one of the first releases on the new and short-lived independent Virgin Classics label, and it remains one of the best versions of
Tchaikovsky’s Manfred Symphony has been one of the unluckiest pieces on disc. Recorded numerous times, there are only three recordings worth mentioning: Silvestri (Testament, mono;
This is one of the gems of the Vaughan Williams discography. Job was a Boult specialty: he recorded it three times, and this last version
This is the last of Adrian Boult’s umpteen recordings of The Planets, and while it isn’t the most disciplined (“Mars” in particular is not always
Adrian Boult brought tremendous authority to any recording he made of 20th century British works, having known the composers and often having conducted the premiere
British composer William Sterndale Bennett (1816-1875) was a contemporary and colleague of Mendelssohn and Schumann–two composers who immediately come to mind when you hear Bennett’s
