

First, let’s understand why this reissue is a typical example […]

There were some interesting moments in these performances that originally

This 1983 Strauss album was made toward the end of Claudio Abbado’s London Symphony period, which yielded some of his finest recordings. Abbado’s readings are

The Bottom Line: Bernstein was an incomparably great Stravinsky interpreter,

At least one part of 19th-century Viennese critic Eduard Hanslick’s

It’s been quite a while since we’ve had a CD

Most all of this material has been reissued previously, but

With its qualities of intelligent, impassioned conducting married to polished

This reissue of performances from a 1986 release on RPO is arguably the finest among a large group of full-orchestra renditions of Fauré’s Requiem. The

This performance needs little introduction. Widely regarded as the finest
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