
It’s a mystery to me why the Te Deum isn’t […]
There is one really noteworthy performance here: Karajan and Rostropovich
Barenboim made a lot of forgettable recordings during his tenure
I have to confess: I love Franck’s Le Chasseur maudit.
These performances can’t compete sonically with Boulez’s DG remakes (of
This celebrated recording of Saint-Saëns’ Third stands as one of the very few performances to challenge the acclaimed Munch/Boston version on RCA. It features playing
This, Rimsky’s last opera, is a caustic satire of military and royal stupidity and incompetence. The Russo-Japanese War had ended badly for the Russians in
Mstislav Rostropovich not only is one of the major musical personalities (and most gifted performers) of any era, but he also has enriched the cello
There’s a sticker affixed to this disc in which Christoph Eschenbach lauds Roussel’s Second Symphony as the most rewarding discovery he has made in several
Hard as it may be to believe, this is the fourth recording of Rendering, and the second by Christoph Eschenbach. It’s not all that different