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Klemperer’s SACD Mozart: Remastering Mythology

David Hurwitz

These are wonderful Mozart performances, not too slow (as you […]

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Big Boxes: Klemperer’s Inimitable Romantic Symphonies and Overtures

David Hurwitz

This is a great set. There is only one really

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Big Boxes: Klemperer’s Alternately Great and Lousy Bruckner

David Hurwitz

There’s good slow, and there’s bad slow. Klemperer’s Bruckner contains

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Big Boxes: Klemperer’s Beethoven–EMI Gets It Right

David Hurwitz

Don’t panic: the concertos will be coming in another box

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Reference Recording: Dorati’s Tchaikovsky Orchestral Suites

David Hurwitz

Sometimes the record industry makes our lives easy. Since it

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EMI’s Big Boult Box: It May Surprise You

David Hurwitz

At his best, Adrian Boult achieved an inevitability and naturalness

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CD From Hell: Klemperer’s Petrushka Escapes From Its Can!

David Hurwitz

Otto Klemperer’s slow, thoughtful, generally well played Pulcinella Suite is

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Reference Recording: Barbirolli’s English String Music

David Hurwitz

This classic disc returns with a “bonus” in the form

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CD From Hell: Horenstein’s Unbelievably Horrible Mahler Seventh

David Hurwitz

This vile Mahler Seventh, broadcast live in 1969, has been

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Beethoven: Complete Symphonies, etc./Klemperer

Jed Distler

Every time Otto Klemperer’s EMI Beethoven recordings are re-released, the couplings change, the prices go down, and the consumer gets confused. In the late 1980s

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Historical Gems: Albert Sammons’ Proprietary Elgar and Delius

David Hurwitz June 15, 2025

Richard Strauss: Ägyptische Helena/Voigt/Botstein

Robert Levine June 8, 2025

Richard Strauss: Orchestra works/Zinman

Jed Distler June 8, 2025

Benjamin Bernheim Rules as Met’s Hoffmann
by Robert Levine
October 6, 2024
Benjamin Bernheim Rules as Met’s Hoffmann Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, NY; Oct 24, 2024 Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann is a nasty work. Despite its
RIP David Vernier, Editor-in-Chief
by David Hurwitz
August 4, 2024
David Vernier, ClassicsToday.com’s founding Editor-in-Chief passed away Thursday morning, August 1, 2024 after a long battle with cancer. The end came shockingly quickly. Just a
Finally, It’s SIR John
by ClassicsToday
June 24, 2024
He’d received many honors before, but it wasn’t until last week that John Rutter, best known for his choral compositions and arrangements, especially works related