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Herbert von Karajan was so prolific a recording artist that proof is easily available to either support or disprove his credentials as a “great conductor
EMI has managed to complete its Great Conductors of the 20th Century series without including Mengelberg and Bernstein among a chosen 40 that found room
Chopin does not frequently figure in Daniel Barenboim’s piano repertoire, and I suspect that this composer’s idiom is an acquired rather than natural affinity for
The only reason I can fathom for this particular program, culled from pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli’s early EMI recordings, is that the three selections made
In the 1950s, under William Steinberg, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra never reached the same level as, say, the Philadelphia Orchestra of the same decade under
The tentative sound of the trumpets at the beginning of Tchaikovsky’s Capricco Italien does not bode well for this disc. But as the orchestra enters,
You probably know whether or not you want this entry in EMI’s Great Conductors of the 20th Century series. Celibidache is a polarizing figure, mostly
If you associate Debussy and Ravel’s sound world with subtle pastels applied in gentle dabs, you might consider violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann’s primary colors and
These performances of Rossini overtures are delightful–and very different from what we often hear today. Giulini’s natural warmth makes the music sound very humane, with
Here’s another EMI Nellie Melba collection, spanning more than two decades of her art. She was 43 when she made the earliest recordings on this
