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If you had been in the audience for Vassily Sinaisky’s BBC Proms concert on August 21st, 1998, you probably would have left Royal Albert Hall
This grotesque sounding (stereo!!!) performance, recorded in the impossibly reverberant acoustic of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, need not detain us long. There is no orchestra.
Some of the music on this disc has been kicking around various pirate labels for a while, and none of it need trouble anyone but
As an interpreter Shura Cherkassky could be capricious and even willful to a maddening degree. You never knew what he would do from piece to
While the CD booklet for this release offers a detailed appreciation of Pierre Monteux’s long and historically important career, it’s unfortunate that these broadcast performances
Collectors who know Rudolf Kempe through his EMI Dresden Staatskapelle recordings will likely be disappointed by this BBC broadcast concert. This orchestra is simply not
One famous American violinist described Yehudi Menuhin’s playing to me as an example of “mind over reality.” This sadly applies to this 1963 Bach E
Wow! Annie Fischer captures the gushing rhetoric and youthful passion of Brahms’ sprawling F minor Sonata and delivers its message like one possessed. She makes
These are fine performances, but why, oh why does BBC Music persist in releasing yet more examples of music that the same artists recorded commercially
To the best of my knowledge, this release is the first live Wilhelm Kempff recital to appear on CD. It’s a beauty. The intimate warmth
