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Carl Schuricht was the kind of conductor that gives the term “Kappelmeister” a positive spin. Like many of the Austro-German timebeaters we associate with what
The Ernest Ansermet volume is one of the best of EMI’s Great Conductors series. It includes terrific, well-chosen performances, only a pair of which are
The history of Yehudi Menuhin’s recording of the Schumann Violin Concerto is probably as captivating as the actual performance he committed to disc in February
Despite his high regard abroad, few of Spanish conductor Ataúlfo Argenta’s recordings have made it to CD. Even fewer of those are still available, the
These days Bruno Walter is best known for his Columbia Symphony stereo recordings, most of which were made when he was in his 80s and
The Decca Singers volume devoted to Joan Sutherland has many of the positives and negatives common to others in the series. On the plus side
Vladimir Spivakov is rarely convincing as a Mozartian. Compare his flighty, over-indulgent, insipid accounts of Concertos 1, 2, and 3 with the lordly and eloquent
Carl Schuricht’s 78s from the 1930s and ’40s are at last getting their long-playing due. His Berlin “Eroica” sounds a shade more impactive and fuller
