

Krystian Zimerman’s first solo release in years showcases both the pianist’s painstaking workmanship and his micromanaging tendencies. The micromanager prevails in the B-flat sonata, particularly

To mark Daniel Barenboim’s 75th birthday on November 15, 2017,

Every so often a major label offers signs of a

Herbert von Karajan. Remember him? The guy who made a

Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s decidedly effete approach to the Mendelssohn symphonies–small forces, light textures (wrongly) avoiding string vibrato in favor of a “mewing” technique to make a

Here, on one Blu-ray audio disc, remastered at 24-bit/96kHz, and

Leonard Bernstein’s DG Beethoven cycle has withstood the test of

In the early 1950s, DG had the bright idea of

Hopefully this recording will do something to make up for

This is an atrocious performance of Bruckner’s Third Symphony: sluggish,
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