
Both of Bernstein’s recordings of Mahler’s Sixth Symphony are outstanding, […]
Love him or hate him, Herbert von Karajan understood that
How do you define if a performance has “soul?” One
If you want all of Messiaen’s orchestral and vocal-orchestral music
Stop the madness! The major labels whine that classical music
Ah, the delicious irony of it all! Here we have
Seiji Ozawa’s version of the Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin
Whatever programmatic agenda Yuja Wang had in mind for her third solo DG release, I detect not so much a “Fantasia” as a “Vladimir Horowitz
Despite the fact that the world needs no more recordings of this opera—at least a half-dozen of those available fall into the “superb” category—this one
We live in strange times. When the repertoire comes from the classical or baroque periods, “authenticity” is the rage. In this music, we know what