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A must for Pears/Britten fans, this disc also features the recording of Britten’s On this Island, the 24-year-old composer’s perfectly wrought, determinedly synergistic settings of
It’s safe to say that nothing like the intimate and uniquely inspirational atmosphere of Britten’s Aldeburgh festivals exists today, given that annual event’s guiding and
The more broadcast recordings of Horenstein’s Mahler that come to light, the more obvious it becomes that the technical challenges that some of this music
Here are two more performances in BBC’s “Britten the Performer” series, both from 1967, and both featuring the composer as conductor–a role in which he
Much as Arthur Rubinstein enjoyed and understood the recording process, he loved playing for live audiences even more. His surviving concert performances may be less
Was Dennis Brain the greatest horn player ever? No argument from me. It’s hard to imagine a more consummate master of any instrument or a
Although caught in concert in the BBC studios in 1966 (concerto) and 1963 (sonata), these archives are in mono, a not very good mono in
There is a fundamental illogic to the commonly heard assertion that conductors who ignore a composer’s clear tempo instructions and play everything within a movement
Horenstein leads a lackluster rendition of Rossini’s Semiramide Overture. Although his near-total inability to vary tempos in accordance with the composer’s directions hadn’t manifested itself
Anyone who pines for the glory days of the Empire, or who just simply loves to wallow in the fabulous music that those days inspired,
