

The playing on this disc is so beautiful that it […]

Good, even very good recordings of Mahler’s Third Symphony are

In 1985 there was Emma Kirkby and London Baroque; in 2000 there was Dorothea Röschmann and the Akademie für Alte Musik; and now we have

Handel had returned to England from Hanover in the fall

Rachel Podger knows how to play Vivaldi, and she has

Iván Fischer has made some first rate Tchaikovsky recordings. This isn’t one of them. At just about every point he seems uninterested, even embarrassed by

Nicolas Altstaedt is a terrific cellist when he tries to be musical rather than “authentic” (see my review of his gruesome disc of CPE Bach

A new recording from violinist Rachel Podger is always worth attention. And before you even get to appreciating the first-class performances—faithful realizations of Bach’s Art

These works have been well served on disc, from the

Iván Fischer always has his Budapest Festival Orchestra playing at a very high level. The strings are sweet are silky, balances are true, and in
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