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The standout item in this release is Bartók’s early symphonic poem Kossuth, partly because of its relative rarity on discs, but also for the opportunity
He was relatively clumsy and unimaginative on stage, and in general he wasn’t as potent and charismatic as Corelli nor as lyrically elegant as Kraus,
Forty-eight years have elapsed, and sopranos (Callas, Price, Caballé), tenors (Corelli, Domingo, Pavarotti), and conductors (Levine, Mehta, Muti) have come and gone, but this set
The playing time is short (about 49 minutes), and the sonics have some of that early digital glare, but the performances are marvelous. It’s great
Artistically at least, the Herbert Blomstedt/San Francisco Symphony/Decca Records partnership was one of the most successful of the 1990s. For the most part the performances
This 50th-anniversary recording of West Side Story is good only as long as no one sings. Nick Ingman leads the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic in an
In 1995 Decca reissued Herbert von Karajan’s complete orchestral recordings with the Vienna Philharmonic in a 9-CD boxed set. Here is a space-saving, budget-priced counterpart
There seems to be a new and very welcome breed of tenor emerging. Even more-so than their grand-voiced predecessors (say, The Three Tenors), singers like
András Schiff takes to the podium in this pair of Schubert symphonies presented as part of the Decca Concerts series. Schiff acquits himself well as
The panache and poetry distinguishing Jorge Bolet’s finest concert performances rarely emerge in these frankly enervated readings, available again via Arkivmusic.com’s on-demand reissue program. True,
