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There is a fundamental illogic to the commonly heard assertion that conductors who ignore a composer’s clear tempo instructions and play everything within a movement
Horenstein leads a lackluster rendition of Rossini’s Semiramide Overture. Although his near-total inability to vary tempos in accordance with the composer’s directions hadn’t manifested itself
Nearly all of the studio and live accounts of Tchaikovsky’s First Concerto with Emil Gilels stand out for the pianist’s powerful projection and astonishingly honest
Lorin Maazel leads a rather slowish Brahms Requiem that emphasizes the work’s devotional characteristics. The relaxed tempos combined with an overall heaviness of texture makes
After his incandescent Verdi Requiem (also recorded for EMI with some of the same forces), Carlo Maria Giulini’s Beethoven Missa solemnis largely disappoints. The passion
This was recorded in 1972, and I recall being disappointed when it was released the following year. Time has done little to dull my disenchantment:
Antal Dorati’s Mercury recordings helped put him on the map as a Tchaikovsky conductor and his years as a ballet conductor helped him win a
Boris Belkin doesn’t shy away one bit from the showier aspects of Paganini’s echt-virtuoso Violin Concerto No. 1. Indeed, he’s only too happy to indulge
Herbert Blomstedt’s Decca recording of the complete Peer Gynt score remains my reference recording for getting the most music onto a single disc, and this
Otto Klemperer’s 1965 recording of Bruckner’s Sixth Symphony never has been surpassed, and this reissue presents it sounding better than ever. His performance is typically
