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Your guide to classical music online
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Your guide to classical music online
Your chief motivation for purchasing this reissue will most likely be the chance to get Pierre Monteux’s 1964 complete Mother Goose. It’s still an extremely
We don’t need to spend too much time here. This is a good, well played, but not great performance of the original version of Ralph
Given the hugely successful results of their Prokofiev and Shostakovich recordings, Mstislav Rostropovich and Maxim Vengerov might have been expected to spin similar magic in
Colin Davis remains an enigma. Recently I have seen him conduct some of the most exciting and enjoyable concerts imaginable, and yet the majority of
From start to finish, astute collectors will discover that there is nothing terribly special about this performance and that it is bettered by numerous studio
It’s funny how many conductors get one Elgar Symphony or the other, but not both. Adrian Boult always did a fine Elgar 2 but wasn’t
Here’s another chance to obtain André Previn’s fine recording of Mendelssohn’s complete A Midsummer Night’s Dream incidental music. This atmospheric performance, taped at London’s Kingsway
André Previn and the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus have given a long-overdue and invigorating face-lift to this much-recorded work, and in the process have
Another marvelous multichannel production from Telarc, this selection of music by the greatest living composer for film and television is self recommending. If I have
Decca’s Prokofiev compilation offers all of the composer’s concerted works in one three-disc package. The main attraction, the 1975 Ashkenazy/Previn Piano Concerto cycle, offers Ashkenazy’s
