
The three Brahms violin sonatas fit comfortably onto a single CD, as evidenced by the recently reissued Josef Suk survey with Julius Katchen, recorded in
The recording of the main work here, Mozart’s Concerto for Flute and Harp with Nicanor Zabaleta and Karlheinz Zöller, appeared just a few months ago
Probably the most important aspect of DG’s Panorama series is that it makes available on CD (alas all too infrequently) recordings long thought lost forever.
This DG Collectors Edition 4-CD set brings together a significant number of Schumann’s solo piano works, recorded at the Hannover Beethovensaal between 1967 and 1972.
Anyone seeking a complete Schubert symphony cycle at mid-price may well find this set suits their needs. The performances were recorded by the Berlin Philharmonic
Well what do you know? Pletnev finally gets one right! After what probably is the single longest and most consistently disappointing string of recordings in
The virtues of the English Concert in Vivaldi (indeed in more or less anything) are well known: stylish but urbane, technically and stylistically well-founded, and
This is a curious reading of The Bells. Mikhail Pletnev seems more attuned to the mystical and profound aspects of Edgar Allen Poe’s tome than
Herbert von Karajan has some very interesting ideas about tempo in Scheherazade. He begins with a broadly paced introduction, but after Michel Schwalbé’s languorous violin
This release has been eagerly awaited–not least, perhaps, by the participants, who recorded it four and a half years ago! Claudio Abbado’s Bruckner cycle so