
Maurizio Pollini’s legendary virtuosity seems to be as powerful as ever. The pianist displays some impressive fingerwork throughout the four Ballades, notably in the brilliant
Control was Sergiu Celibidache’s strength and weakness. He had a remarkable ability, even genius for conveying his innermost desires to the orchestras he conducted, calibrating
The Staatskapelle Dresden is an orchestra with a long Brucknerian tradition, as some wonderful recordings made with Eugen Jochum for EMI testify. But Sinopoli is
In some ways, Alexander Scriabin is a hard composer to take seriously, if only because the gap between his pretensions and his achievements is so
Whatever curse that has made Claudio Abbado and Berlin one of the most interpretively comatose musical partnerships in the world certainly seems to be working
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