
Brilliant Classics makes Friedrich Gulda’s 1967 Amadeo Beethoven cycle available on the American market for the first time since Philips’ mid-1980s reissue. Amadeo’s own CD
This first, single-CD volume of Haydn’s songs for Scottish publisher George Thomson concludes with a very interesting item: Macpherson’s Farewell, to a text (mostly) by
Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsodies used to be popular concert staples, yet they seem to have completely vanished from the repertoires of today’s pianists, even the thrice-familiar
Muti’s Philharmonia Tchaikovsky cycle on balance remains the best available, probably the best thus far recorded. It has everything: passion, intensity, razor-sharp discipline, and excitement
It says something about how the recording industry has changed that just a decade or so after Philips released its complete Mozart Edition to general
This is a first-rate Schubert cycle, and we can only wonder what is in store for EMI now that it has decided to license its
You want to love this set. Sawallisch is a reliable, earnest, musicianly conductor of the “Kappelmeister” type, and of course the Concertgebouw remains one of
If you want every Janácek piano piece extant, significant or slight, in superb, beautifully engineered interpretations at rock-bottom cost, look no further. Häkon Austbo is
EMI recorded quite a few discs with Mariss Jansons and the Oslo Philharmonic. Among other things there was this partial Dvorák cycle, and also a
There have been a number of distinguished recorded cycles of Handel’s beloved organ concertos over the years, but this recent 5-CD budget-priced offering from Brilliant