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The Israel Philharmonic, circa 1958, seemed better equipped to handle Tchaikovsky’s luxuriously upholstered textures than Dvorák’s exposed and rhythmically challenging string writing. Even under Rafael
If you’ve never heard Schubert’s complete Rosamunde music, this is a great place to start. Karl Münchinger leads a fresh, vital performance from the bracing
Heinrich Schütz composed his Die Auferstehung unsres Herren Jesu Christi in the early 1620s. It takes the form of a compact oratorio following the events
Zubin Mehta’s is one of the great Nielsen Fourths, a performance in which he combines a firm grip on the work’s structure with a powerful
Claudio Abbado’s earliest Mendelssohn symphony recordings, made long before his international celebrity and prestigious music directorships, reveal a young conductor of considerable talent. His way
This masterful performance of the Symphonie fantastique comes from Colin Davis’ pioneering Berlioz cycle with the London Symphony Orchestra, originally taped for Philips and now
Three great violinists taped Beethoven’s Violin Concerto Op. 61 at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw during the early 1970s. On two occasions, the Concertgebouw Orchestra played under
Maazel’s razor sharp, brilliant, and somewhat clipped delivery of Bizet’s L’Arlésienne and Jeux d’enfants Suites has the music sounding almost like one of Poulenc’s or
George Szell’s excellent Tchaikovsky Fourth Symphony, long absent from the catalog, has made a welcome return on several different labels, most recently Universal’s not overwhelmingly
Zubin Mehta’s Los Angeles Mahler Fifth has never topped the list of available recordings, though it does come close. All of its problems occur at
