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This celebrated recording of the almost-complete Gayne finally makes it to CD, and it’s as fresh and exciting as you may remember. About 75 percent
Henryk Szeryng’s robust and resonant violin tone at times takes on a dark quality more like a viola–quite different from the bright sound of Heifetz.
Richard Hickox’s performances of these two symphonies for Chandos are very good; indeed, his take on the first movement of the Sixth Symphony, so redolent
This unusual coupling works surprisingly well, God only knows why. Perhaps the Britten’s neo-classical (or Baroque) leanings and formal freedom sit well next to Beethoven’s
The LSO recorded an excellent version of this symphony for EMI under André Previn, and the orchestra clearly hasn’t forgotten how this music should go.
These are all of Arthur Rubinstein’s pre-World War II Chopin EMI recordings, save for three Mazurkas recorded in 1930 that the pianist remade in 1938/39
This is bad. The LSO, interestingly, despite its advocacy of Mahler over the years, has not been known for its performances of the Fourth–but there’s
This is Bernard Haitink’s second go at Strauss’ An Alpine Symphony. The first, from 1985, had as it’s main distinguishing feature the velvety sound of
Valery Gergiev’s previous recording of this work suffered from dull sonics and less than stellar playing from the Kirov orchestra. These two defects have been
This may be the most scintillating, exciting, sonically vibrant Nutcracker of them all, fully exploiting orchestral color and sectional timbres (especially the strings)–and whether you
