Celi Strauss and Respighi

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

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Sinopoli/Bruckner/DGG

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

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Boulez/Scriabin

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

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A Boring Wunderhorn

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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