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Anyone still reeling from the revisionist austerities of Harnoncourt’s recent New Year’s concerts will be thrilled to hear these somewhat more traditional performances, in which
The pluses and minuses of this set are easily summarized: Symphony No. 1 is excellent, No. 2 very good, No. 3 dull and stodgy, and
This Panorama release pairs two of the choice items from Bernstein’s live Beethoven series, circa 1979-81. The Symphony No. 9, from his complete Vienna Philharmonic
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
Herbert von Karajan’s Beethoven Seventh circa 1959 contains many of the same performance characteristics familiar from his later remakes (three in all) with the Berlin
As with many digital recordings from the early 1980s, this set of Brahms Piano Concertos, both on LP and CD, suffered from a reputation for
That Erich Kleiber was a major conductor is evident to anyone familiar with his Decca recordings of Strauss’ Rosenkavalier, Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro, and 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
Between 1945 and 1981 Yehudi Menuhin recorded the Beethoven concerto a remarkable 10 times. His best known traversals are those under Furtwängler and the 1966
If someone set up a microphone and captured live a below-average subscription-concert performance of a difficult large work and then published the resultant recording as
