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Skrowaczewski conducts Bruckner’s Symphony No. 0 with a lighter touch than most, linking it more with the classical era than with the weightier, profound works
David Zinman’s performance of Richard Strauss’ early Aus Italien is on the restrained side. The first movement’s sunrise (a passage where Riccardo Muti and the
Liszt always benefits when the performer takes his scores on faith, as exemplified by Alfredo Perl’s respectful, musicianly interpretations. His clangorous sonority, however, wears its
Here, practically out of the blue (actually from live performances at the Tiroler Festspiele in Austria in July, 1999) comes a bargain-priced recording of Wagner’s
Of the four works Matthias Kirschnereit presents on his all-Mendelssohn recital, the best known gets the strongest performance. The Variations Sérieuses move in a rigorous,
Make a note of this name: Elena Mosuc. This debut recital by the young Romanian coloratura soprano is a knockout. Recital CDs in general are
John Treleaven is a British Heldentenor who made his debut at Covent Garden in 1979. Since then he has sung at most of Western Europe’s
Eugène Ysaÿe heard his younger colleague Joseph Szigeti perform one of the Bach solo sonatas, after which the two violinists discussed the lack of major
In the booklet notes accompanying his recordings of Bach’s Solo Sonatas and Partitas, violinist Benjamin Schimd stresses the music’s harmonic richness as the basis of
