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This performance, from July 1983, documents Lovro von Matacic’s only Proms concert appearance. Although the Bruckner specialist was 84 on this occasion (he died the
The performances on this disc are predictably fine–vintage Stokowski in fact–and not too badly recorded given their provenance (Royal Albert Hall, 1969). There’s only one
Barbirolli’s Haffner Symphony offers a lively and stylish interpretation, full of warmth and energy, assuming you can accept cavernous 1967 Royal Albert Hall recorded sound
Sviatoslav Richter’s all-Schubert recital of March 31, 1979 at London’s Royal Festival Hall was previously released in a limited edition set (BBC WMCU 0011-2). In
The two Shostakovich violin concertos hardly suffer from lack of excellent modern recordings, as Ilya Kaler (Naxos), Lydia Mordkovitch (Chandos), Dimitry Sitkovetsky (Virgin), and several
Is anyone pining for Boult’s Schubert Ninth? He recorded the work several times commercially, versions that at no point challenged the best of the competition,
Perhaps the main reason you’d want this disc would be as a souvenir of the Otto Klemperer Memorial Concert, held on January 14, 1974 (assuming,
It seems to me that, with exception of Toscanini’s account, the old trio of “classic” Harolds by Beecham, Toscanini, and Koussevitsky has been roundly outclassed
The best thing about this September 16, 1954 concert is Thomas Beecham’s hilarious speech preceding the lovely encore performance of Massenet’s Last Sleep of the
This concert, captured in May, 1970 in okay stereo sound just 10 weeks before the conductor’s death, has been kicking around for a while from
