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Manfred Honeck makes the Shostakovich Fifth sound freshly-composed–quite an accomplishment for this certified warhorse. His scrupulous attention to Shostakovich’s meticulous dynamic markings and instrumental balances–the
I don’t get it. A few years ago, EMI released
Nathan Milstein was without question one of the handful of
This is juicy. I’m sure that many music lovers have
You would expect Honeck to respond to the passion and intensity of Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony, and so he does. The wild first movement development and
No matter how many billion recordings of this music we
Marek Janowski’s stirring performance of Richard Strauss’ An Alpine Symphony
Everyone plays Bruckner these days. Everyone records Bruckner these days. Ninety-nine percent of those recordings, never mind the live performances, are dreck. They exist for
There are few things more wonderful in the life of a record collector than a really great recording of a repertory warhorse. It’s not just
Recordings like this restore one’s faith in the possibility of
