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These are well played, well recorded performances of Rossini’s most popular overtures. Charles Dutoit conducts with an obvious if somewhat restrained sense of the theater.
Alicia de Larrocha and André Previn cautiously commence their Rachmaninov Third, neither one of them quite taking the lead. But when the pianist arrives at
There’s little that need detain us here: Adrian Boult rerecorded both symphonies for EMI in the 1960s, in excellent sound with a much more polished
Schumann’s Kinderszenen translates into English as “Scenes from Childhood”, yet Daniel Barenboim’s absorbing, at times over-intense interpretation might qualify for the subtitle “Working out one’s
Les Sylphides and La Boutique fantasque originated from commissions by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes after World War I. Based on an assortment of Chopin piano works,
This 1971 Brahms Second reveals the consistency of the Berlin Philharmonic’s playing style in this work. In terms of orchestral timbre, it sounds pretty much
Wilhelm Kempff approaches Bach’s Capriccio on the departure of a beloved brother, the D major Toccata, and 12 Preludes and Fugues from The Well-Tempered Clavier
Zubin Mehta’s Bruckner Ninth surely deserves careful remastering and reissue on Decca’s “Legends” series, but until that unlikely event we must be grateful to Australian
The most interesting thing about this Bruckner 4 is the way in which Zubin Mehta has succeeded in imposing a Viennese sound on his Los
You have to be stuck playing snare drum or triangle in the Symphonie espagnole’s finale, after six long rehearsals in as many days with a
