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The Dvorák Concerto always has been on the fringe of the repertoire, never matching the Tchaikovsky or the other big guns in the Romantic concerto
The Gilels/Ormandy Chopin E minor concerto mainly impresses for its surface sheen. As a Chopinist, Gilels was not the colorist and tone poet Arthur Rubinstein
Artur Schnabel’s 1945 New York Philharmonic broadcast of Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto boasts outer movements full of stylish brio and virility and a Largo fashioned
Astute collectors of 78s pay close attention to disc pressings just as wine connoisseurs scrutinize particular vintages. Over the years that certain recordings remained in
Kurt Masur leads a devotional account of the Missa solemnis, and many listeners will miss the “heaven-storming” qualities so evident in recordings by Bernstein, Klemperer,
There’s an unwritten rule that many artists do their best work in repertoire that seems atypical of their style or predilections. Such is the case
Kurt Masur’s 1992 Avery Fisher Hall account of César Franck’s D minor symphony powerfully underlines the work’s structural details but leaves you feeling that the
Much critical ink has been spilled extolling the virtues of Toscanini’s classic New York Philharmonic recordings from the 1920s and 1930s, and justifiably so. In
Disc 2 of this collection offers rare Josef Hofmann broadcast material that hasn’t appeared elsewhere on CD. By and large the performances confirm the great
No need to linger here. Several versions of Mitropoulos’ impulsive way with Mahler’s First survive: his hysterically neurotic, poorly played, badly recorded Minneapolis studio recording
