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Despite the title, this is not “the very best” of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Disc 1, focusing on lieder, arguably contains tracks that could contend for such
This isn’t a great Fantastique, though it has its moments. Of course, at one point in his career Thomas Beecham probably was an ideal interpreter
Just about all of Youri Egorov’s Schumann recordings are excellently remastered for this two-for-one reissue. Without exception the performances attest to the tragically short-lived pianist’s
I always felt that I could live without the Chopin Concertos, and managed to–until Alexis Weissenberg dusted off the cobwebs from Mme Sand’s salon and
Berlioz’s music for tenor is not only varied from light-lyric to heroic, it’s also ungraciously written: high notes pop up out of nowhere; tessitura remains
There was a time when a conductor interpreting a Beethoven symphony examined the score, brought his own artistic insights to bear in combination with his
One month after Glenn Gould set down his celebrated 1981 remake of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, Alexis Weissenberg recorded his own second version, reissued here for
Taken from live performances held at the Berlin Philharmonie in 2002, this all-Mozart program showcases Itzhak Perlman’s increasing podium activities, along with directing the G
This was recorded long before the discovery of the hundreds of additional pages of Offenbach’s score that has informed performances since the mid-1980s. In other
Given the hugely successful results of their Prokofiev and Shostakovich recordings, Mstislav Rostropovich and Maxim Vengerov might have been expected to spin similar magic in
