

Whatever virtues Fazil Say might bring to Bach or Mozart, this release demonstrates beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is way out of

While Kurt Masur’s new Shostakovich “Leningrad Symphony” may not displace memories of Bernstein, Järvi, Kondrashin, or Mravinsky in this monumental work, it’s still a highly

Should a superior source ever turn up of Bruno Walter’s 1948 New York Philharmonic broadcast performance of Beethoven’s Missa solemnis (a work he never recorded

The title of this CD is somewhat misleading. It is music of “our time” for the 1960s, when experimental music was in vogue. It seems

There are very few recordings of Baroque vocal music in the Bernstein discography, to which most listeners will probably say “Thank God!” But look at

These live Beethoven performances can be subtitled “A Tale of Two Toscaninis”. At first hearing, this 1942 New York Philharmonic broadcast transcription of the Triple

A “pops” concert from 100 years ago might have included tuneful Central European chestnuts such as the ones on this disc. Would the orchestra have

This disc contains the CD premiere of Leonard Bernstein’s 1958 recording of Tchaikovsky’s Fourth. The Royal Edition previously offered his remake of a decade later,

On December 28th, 1941, Dimitri Mitropoulos led the New York Philharmonic in a concert commemorating the music of Busoni, with whom the Greek conductor studied

Sony’s 1991 Igor Stravinsky Edition brought all the stereo recordings either conducted or supervised by the composer together in a boxed set, with a bonus
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