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Nothing new or rare here, but LP mavens wishing these performances in state-of-the-art analog transfers on super thick, extra virgin vinyl should investigate this boxed
Carlos Kleiber’s Beethoven Seventh and the first of Herbert von Karajan’s three Strauss Don Quixotes (with cellist Pierre Fournier portraying the befuddled Knight) are time-honored
In 1999 EMI brought out a live Brahms Symphony cycle with Sergiu Celibidache conducting the Munich Philharmonic. What convinces about these unconventionally broad and decidedly
Maurizio Pollini’s reputation as a fearsome intellectual and proponent of difficult contemporary music should, one would think, stand him in good stead as an interpreter
The Prokofiev Symphony No. 5 is the best of this lot. It boasts warm, full sound and highly alert playing. Celibidache employs what must be
This new Manon Lescaut can stand high with the old Callas/di Stefano and it’s in glorious sound to boot. Taped live at La Scala during
Sergiu Celibidache felt a particular spiritual affinity with the symphonies of Anton Bruckner. They constituted the core of his repertoire, and he had very strong
In Debussy’s Nocturnes Sergiu Celibidache lets the clouds of Nuages drift by at a dreamily slow pace, conjuring up a lazy summer afternoon, while he
These performances, now 40-ish years old, are still delightfully fresh; and frankly, despite all of the scholarship that has gone on since and the subsequent
Myung-Whun Chung previously has proven his affinity for Dvorák on two occasions: an excellent recording of Symphonies Nos. 7 and 8 for BIS, and later
