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This isn’t a completely successful Bruckner Fifth, but it is an interesting one. The biggest problems occur in the first movement, where Sinopoli executes what
It seems that we are supposed to take John Williams, one of the greatest and most successful film composers, seriously. This disc has two examples,
Recorded in 1994 and released in 2001 (so far only in Japan), this Shostakovich Fourth is all that exists of what originally was announced as
The return of this important recording to the catalog as a mid-priced reissue is to be warmly welcomed. The performances by the father/daughter partnership of
John Eliot Gardiner makes heavy weather of Bruckner’s D minor Mass, an already weighty work that in this performance won’t win many new adherents, even
Neeme Järvi already has recorded the First symphony by Maximillian Steinberg (1883-1946, son-in-law of Rimsky-Korsakov) with the Gothenburg Symphony for DG. These same forces follow
Neeme Järvi’s survey of Grieg’s orchestral works always has been highly regarded, combining idiomatic interpretations and vibrant sound from Gothenburg’s splendid orchestra and acoustically inviting
This DG Originals reissue includes Herbert von Karajan’s 1961 recording of the Mozart Requiem, with the welcome addition of a 1971 account of the Adagio
Violin enthusiasts shouldn’t pass up this opportunity to hear two of the 20th century’s greatest performers, Joanna Martzy and Erica Morini, on this DG Originals
This Eroica is contemporaneous with Karajan’s celebrated 1962 complete Beethoven cycle, also with the Berlin Philharmonic, and it points up some striking differences in approach.
