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This 1949 RIAS performance of Abduction has much to recommend it, as well as a few problems. Ferenc Fricsay is a superb Mozartean, capable of
Historic record mavens are most likely to know Conrad Hansen in his role as piano soloist in Mengelberg’s Berlin Philharmonic studio recording of the Tchaikovsky
Recorded in 1958, this Don Giovanni’s prime attraction is Ferenc Fricsay’s crisp, forward-moving conducting. The tempos are swift, almost as though Fricsay can’t wait to
Both as pianist and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy always has struck me as one of our greatest musical intellects; yet, especially as he has matured, I
Violist Luigi Alberto Bianchi specializes in performances on historical instruments–that is, instruments that have historical value, not period instruments. In these recordings from 1973 and
