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Multichannel sound adds nothing to this unremarkable performance (for Victor Carr Jr’s original review, enter Q2959 in the search box), save for perhaps a degree
Rafael Kubelik could be said to have “owned” Smetana’s Má Vlást. He certainly recorded it (at least commercially) more than any other conductor. This 1959
This well-filled double-disc Preiser set focuses on Maria Cebotari’s radio recordings made in 1942 and 1943, with three exceptions. She was only 32 at the
Nikolaus Harnoncourt has established himself as a noteworthy interpreter of Viennese light music through his previous recordings on Teldec, and while there’s little here that
Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique ought to suit Rudolf Kempe to a tee, and he does some things that are marvelous: the way he floats the second-movement
The main appeal of this release will be the marvelous leadership of George Szell, into whose hands this opera fell when Karl Böhm gave it
This 1933 Rosenkavalier is a classic recording, one that should be in every opera collection. Returning to it after a long hiatus confirms its status.
At long last Decca reissues Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt’s Vienna Philharmonic Beethoven cycle from the 1960s in full, together with the conductor’s accounts of the concertos, featuring
This set restores most of Decca’s Maazel/Vienna Philharmonic Tchaikovsky symphony cycle to circulation at mid-price. These detailed but over-bright transfers tend to exaggerate the many
Beginning with a stodgy and gruff Academic Festival Overture with out-of-sync percussion and an out-of-tune orchestra, these Brahms performances have to rank among the more
