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The Vienna Philharmonic, that bastion of orchestral refinement, would seem an unlikely choice for a truly characterful performance of Mussorgsky’s irrepressible Pictures. However, Valery Gergiev
Carl Schuricht leads off this 1961 Salzburg concert with the Vienna Philharmonic in a bracing and even pugnacious performance of Gottfried Stölzel’s Concerto Grosso. True,
In a word, John Eliot Gardiner’s take on Elgar is exasperating. With these four works (two warhorses and two less famous), he proves himself to
Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s previous Strauss outing with the Berlin Philharmonic gave ample proof of his affinity for this delightful music. Like all the best conductors of
It would be interesting to know, purely from the standpoint of understanding pathological phenomena, what (if any) criteria were used to choose the selections on
This set (originally issued by Decca) was one of the first operas (possibly the first) released on LP, and its virtues hold their own fifty
The Mahler is a sad case. Kindertotenlieder, here transposed up a minor third (presumably to accommodate the soprano range) audibly taxes Kirsten Flagstad’s apparently waning
This famed performance, one of the two standard recommendations from the 1960s and ’70s (the other was Haitink’s), at last is generally available in the
In his day, Willi Boskovsky, said to have the “Viennese lilt in his genes”, was considered one of the great exponents of the Viennese Waltz.
The return of this important recording to the catalog as a mid-priced reissue is to be warmly welcomed. The performances by the father/daughter partnership of
