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Adrian Boult’s first recording of “A London Symphony” presents a brasher and edgier view of the music than his EMI remake from 15 years later.
Adrian Boult’s 1953 recording of A Sea Symphony provides a comparatively early example of his mastery of Vaughan Williams’ music (discographically speaking, not in terms
Over the decades there have been numerous recordings that contain one or more of the works featured on this sturdy and comprehensive collection of “choral
For multitudes of listeners, the sound of King’s is the sound of Christmas. And indeed, for those same listeners these original Decca performances (reissued on
Ruggiero Ricci’s Tchaikovsky/Mendelssohn Concerto coupling was one of the more desirable items in Decca’s defunct Weekend Classics budget line. Along comes Universal’s Eloquence budget line,
For surface beauty and total professionalism you cannot go wrong with these performances, or with any others from Vladimir Ashkenazy’s Mozart Concerto cycle for that
Thanks to Australian Eloquence we once again can savor this marvelous testament to great Brahms conducting. Right from the introduction, with throbbing timpani and magnificently
Deutsche Grammophon seems to have a monopoly on great Mahler Firsts, with Bernstein, Kubelik, and Boulez all prime recommendations. This 1977 underrated but otherwise superb
In the main, Nikita Magaloff’s Chopin Etudes are solid, intelligent, and well-played regulation-model interpretations. No controversy (save for the use of a curious alternative text
Here’s yet another reissue of Kurt Masur’s 1973 Beethoven Ninth, this time as a single budget-priced disc. It’s nothing special. For starters, the Allegro ma
