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This release captures the great conductor Carlo Maria Giulini in live performances from 1961, early in his career. Given that he recorded both the Tchaikovsky
Jascha Horenstein deserves tremendous credit for his Mahlerian crusade in Britain in the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s. But with hindsight, we can now see that
All of the performances on this disc except the Seventh Symphony come from Sir Thomas Beecham’s marathon 90th birthday tribute to Sibelius on December 8,
No matter how stylishly a classical artist may sing pop or musical theater songs, every sustained note is invariably served up with the same, patented
Mstislav Rostropovich’s finest recording of the First Cello Concerto remains the one he made with Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra in the composer’s presence.
These live broadcast concerto performances from Sviatoslav Richter’s 1961 London debut concerts have circulated on numerous independent labels. None of these, however, sounds as good
Myra Hess made surprisingly few commercial recordings for a pianist of her international stature. She hated the process and felt that only two or three
Although a well-loved character in Britain, Sir John Barbirolli was a maddeningly inconsistent conductor who was very much at the mercy of his musicians. Though
Britten’s performance of Romeo and Juliet is superb and highly unusual. He deploys his chamber orchestra (meaning in this case a smaller than usual string
Shostakovich dedicated his Fourteenth Symphony to Benjamin Britten, and so this performance by the dedicatee and two of the soloists who participated in the work’s
