
Abbado’s best Mahler recordings were his earliest, made in Chicago, […]
Giuseppe Sinopoli could be too smart for his own good.
This 1983 Strauss album was made toward the end of Claudio Abbado’s London Symphony period, which yielded some of his finest recordings. Abbado’s readings are
There are a few dozen complete recordings of Puccini’s nasty potboiler, Tosca, but the major labels seem to have gotten tired of it some time
Put this release squarely into the “naked emperor” category. Scrounging
There are at least four recordings of Tchaikovsky’s First Piano
At least one part of 19th-century Viennese critic Eduard Hanslick’s
This slim “Collector’s Edition” five-CD box of Haydn Symphonies is
Pierre Boulez never has shown any particular affinity for the
The concept looks great, but the execution leaves much to