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It seems odd to find Georges Prêtre in EMI’s “Great Artists of the Century” series. But in the music of Poulenc, Prêtre was on the
If you love French melodies, then 80 minutes of Gérard Souzay in his prime makes this a necessary acquisition. Everything here was recorded in the
Because so many of Charles Munch’s recordings made during his years with the Boston Symphony (1949-1962) are still in the catalog, the conductor seems almost
This reissue of Ernest Ansermet treasures from the early 1950s is split more or less evenly between Debussy and Dukas, with Saint-Saëns’ popular Danse macabre
It’s a wonder we don’t get more recordings of Poulenc’s concertos, but why complain when the three on this disc, dating from 1957 and 1961,
In my review of Testament’s previous issue of Poulenc and Delibes ballets led by Roger Désormière (type Q6960 in Search Reviews) I noted that the
Roger Désormière is perhaps best known among record collectors as the conductor of the classic 1941 Debussy Pélleas et Mélisande, but Testament’s series of reissues
Conductor Albert Wolff’s photo on the cover of this first-rate, well-filled CD easily could be mistaken for that of a provincial French bank manager. Though
Testament’s mining of the late mono and early stereo recordings from the vaults of EMI and other labels has yielded a host of valuable reissues,
Leonid Kogan was one of several Soviet artists who burst upon the Western classical music scene in the mid-1950s, astonishing all with their incredible technique
