

Certainly, it’s no accident of programming that finds these works all on the same disc. What’s amazing is the fact that they are rarely–or never–recorded.

BBC Legends’ fourth Wilhelm Kempff release preserves a recital that took place October 7, 1967 at Manchester University. It includes one major work that Kempff

Dennis Brain is generally accorded a place among horn players akin to that occupied by Heifetz among violinists. This CD does nothing to contradict that,

Just in case purchasers of this CD aren’t sure how to respond to the Berlioz, the producers have kindly included more than 30 seconds of

Forget the muffled sonic quality of Claudio Arrau’s Beethoven/Schumann recital recorded for the BBC on October 16, 1960, and try to zero in on the

Reginald Goodall’s notoriety (in England above all) rests on a single composer (Wagner), and he was the proud creator of one completely successful recording (Tristan

We are very fortunate to have these timeless and very well recorded performances that document one of the most fruitful artistic collaborations in the history

In the early 1960s, Carlo Maria Giulini’s interpretation of Verdi’s Requiem was one of the musical world’s great “happenings”. His vision of the piece perfectly

All the selections on this disc stem from recitals Sviatoslav Richter gave at the Aldeburgh Festival between 1964 and 1966. Certain independent labels boast excellent

Of the four available versions of Giulini’s Verdi Requiem, a DG 1990 Berlin set can be ignored since it’s throttled by the torpor that infected
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