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This DG Concerts Download release of the July 2, 2006 all-Mozart concert from the Styriarte Festival in Graz, Austria offers warm-hearted, graceful Mozart performances, featuring
The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra may not be the Czech Philharmonic, but it plays its collective heart out for Kubelik, who understands as well as
Götz Friedrich’s 1981 Elektra film sets Richard Strauss’ opera in a dark and dingy abandoned 20th-century factory populated by grungy denizens in psuedo-Greek garb. Elektra
Having practically waxed poetic recently about the Traviata from Madrid starring Norah Amsellem, I’m feeling a bit fickle: the one under consideration here, the hit
If you set out to record vulgar, perverse, and self-serving Mozart piano interpretations, at least be fun, or entertain, like Glenn Gould did. Unfortunately, Mikhail
To the small body of concerted works for trumpet come these three amazing compositions that go a long way to redefine the genre. H.K. Gruber’s
Although Herbert von Karajan probably would have wanted to be remembered as a great conductor in the central German repertoire, his best orchestral recordings often
Composed expressly for Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Aribert Reimann’s Lear offers a considered if ultimately problematic response to Shakespeare’s tragedy. In a booklet note Fischer-Dieskau recounts the
It may be rash to claim that the French pianist Monique Haas (1909-1987) never made a bad recording, but you won’t find one among her
Although Leonard Bernstein had a reputation as a heavy-duty interventionist in music of the late romantic period, even in his late phase he never lost
