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EMI’s Underwhelming Walton Collector’s Edition

David Hurwitz

This twelve CD set contains some remarkably poorly chosen titles […]

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Video Review: Classic Gershwin and Gould from Slatkin Sr. and Pennario

David Hurwitz

Click HERE for the video, or on the image below, and

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Reference Recording: Klemperer’s Missa Solemnis Still Delivers

Jed Distler

I’ve owned Otto Klemperer’s classic 1965 recording of Beethoven’s Missa

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CD From Hell: Barbirolli’s Spasmodic Sibelius Cycle

David Hurwitz

With Warner set to issue a big Barbirolli box containing

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Cult Conductors: Is The Beecham Scheherazade Really All That?

David Hurwitz

For decades now we’ve been hearing British critics chortle with

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Under the Radar: Peter Donohoe’s Superb Brahms PC1

Jed Distler

Few if any of Peter Donohoe’s full-priced EMI releases have

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Under the Radar: Klemperer’s Noble, Dazzling Tchaikovsky Fifth

David Hurwitz

Otto Klemperer’s Tchaikovsky Fifth is one of the half dozen

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Reference Recording: Previn’s Chicago Shostakovich 4th

David Hurwitz

New recordings of Shostakovich’s Fourth Symphony used to be rare.

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Under the Radar: Previn’s Glorious Mahler 4th

David Hurwitz

For years I’ve been referring to this recording as a

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Big Boxes: Previn’s Not Always Great LSO Recordings

David Hurwitz

This is one of those confused, random collections that makes

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Satie: Complete 4–hand music/van Veen

Jed Distler May 18, 2025

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Reference Recording: Thibaudet Plays Satie, Complete

David Hurwitz May 18, 2025

Big Boxes: Prime Vintage Ormandy on RCA Victor

Jed Distler May 11, 2025

Benjamin Bernheim Rules as Met’s Hoffmann
by Robert Levine
October 6, 2024
Benjamin Bernheim Rules as Met’s Hoffmann Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, NY; Oct 24, 2024 Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann is a nasty work. Despite its
RIP David Vernier, Editor-in-Chief
by David Hurwitz
August 4, 2024
David Vernier, ClassicsToday.com’s founding Editor-in-Chief passed away Thursday morning, August 1, 2024 after a long battle with cancer. The end came shockingly quickly. Just a
Finally, It’s SIR John
by ClassicsToday
June 24, 2024
He’d received many honors before, but it wasn’t until last week that John Rutter, best known for his choral compositions and arrangements, especially works related