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So many recordings came and went during the past couple of decades that it’s hard to remember which ones were really good. Certainly this Petrushka
This disc is symptomatic of everything that was wrong with the major recording labels in the 1980s and ’90s. Does anyone remember that this release
This Traviata, recorded in 1962, was the first presented uncut, with both verses of the famous arias, intermediary passages, and the inclusion of both Alfredo’s
What is there to say? Well, quite a bit, actually, but not about the performance itself. It’s still an outstanding rendition of perhaps the great
Albeniz? Oh yes, he’s the Spanish pianist-composer who wrote Iberia, is the answer most music aficionados would give. Even those who consider themselves learned would
Rossini’s Matilde di Shabran first appeared at Rome’s Apollo theatre on February 24, 1821, about 10 weeks after his Maometto II debuted in Naples. As
This reissue of two fine, very well engineered Shostakovich symphony performances vividly illustrates what went wrong with the classical recording industry, particularly at the major
Vladimir Ashkenazy’s way with the Rachmaninov Second Piano Concerto noticeably mellowed in the years between his blistering 1963 premiere recording on Decca with Kirill Kondrashin
Decca gives La Bartoli the full treatment here–flattering soft focus cover picture, heavy cardboard housing instead of the chintzy jewel box, a catchy if meaningless
Here’s a generously packed, excellently remastered eight-disc overview of Julius Katchen’s prolific (though tragically short-lived) recording career. Much of the material overlaps with Australian Decca’s
