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There’s only one small disappointment on this otherwise very entertaining disc–Enescu’s Romanian Rhapsody No. 1, which is insufficiently contrasted between fast sections and slow, lacking
This is the best available modern recording of Dvorák’s three gorgeous Slavonic Rhapsodies, music that’s totally neglected in the concert hall and nearly so on
This disc offers Leonard Bernstein in some quite rare (at least for him, on disc) operatic repertoire. Given his flair for the dramatic, it’s not
In the early 1950s Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau began what would become a long and distinguished career as one of his generation’s foremost Bach interpreters. By 1981,
Available internationally for the first time on CD, Lorin Maazel’s Tchaikovsky Third Suite always has been one of his finest recordings with the Vienna Philharmonic.
If nothing else, this 1995 recital attests to Liszt’s multiple compositional personalities, from religious obsessive and lyric poet to harmonic experimenter and heroic virtuoso. Pianist
These are very fine performances, recorded during the go-go 1980s when Universal (and everyone else) was issuing standard-rep CDs like they were going out of
This second of two Haydn Trio discs featuring pianist András Schiff, violinist Yuuko Shiokawa, and the late, great cellist Boris Pergamenschikow upholds the first volume’s
This is a mid-price reissue of the recording on which colleague Rad Bennett lavished well-deserved praise (type Q1325 in search reviews). Sopranos Sandrine Piau and
Hearing tangos by Ernesto Nazareth interspersed with rags by Scott Joplin’s younger contemporaries James Scott and Joseph Lamb reveals more about these composers’ musical commonalities
