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Eduard van Beinum’s stereo Debussy recordings have withstood all competition for nearly half a century, and they remain marvelously enjoyable. La Mer combines crystalline purity
Paul Kletzki leads a fleet and nervy Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2 that emphasizes the music’s surface passion while holding firm to its underlying structure. The
Walter Weller’s idiosyncratic Symphony No. 1 makes its welcome first appearance on CD. This is a highly volatile rendition, with Weller keenly attuned to the
Finally making its appearance on CD, Paul Kletzki’s 1969 Rachmaninov Third emerges as one of the finest-ever recordings of this work. Everything falls into place
With the exception of the String Quartet, this collection offers all of Debussy’s important chamber music in excellent performances by the Boston Symphony Chamber players.
This lovely collection, recorded in 1988 and ’89, finds Emma Kirkby at her mature best. The voice is still silvery and smallish, but it has
This highly entertaining Eloquence release returns to the catalog Dohnányi’s Variations on a Nursery Song in a blazing performance by András Schiff with Georg Solti
Boris Belkin doesn’t shy away one bit from the showier aspects of Paganini’s echt-virtuoso Violin Concerto No. 1. Indeed, he’s only too happy to indulge
A decade separates the recordings of Symphonies Nos. 33 & 39 (1963) from Symphony No. 40 (1974), but the passage of time does not affect
When this recording was made 40 years ago it had a lot going for it, and in many ways it still does. The three vocalists
