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The Barenboim/Celibidache combination proves a potent one in Schumann’s Piano Concerto. In the first movement Barenboim’s light touch and freely elastic rubato make for a
Debussy’s only opera has fared very well on recordings, and this set stands tall even within that framework. As you might expect, Herbert von Karajan
Here’s another chance to obtain André Previn’s fine recording of Mendelssohn’s complete A Midsummer Night’s Dream incidental music. This atmospheric performance, taped at London’s Kingsway
EMI’s inclusion of Paul Kletzki among the elite podium masters represented in its Great Conductors of the 20th Century series surely is one of its
If you like your Ravel piano concertos focusing on fastidious detail and untrammeled elegance, these 1979 recordings surely will suit your needs. Lorin Maazel balances
In 1988 EMI reissued the 1953 Menuhin/Furtwängler Bartók Second Concerto, coupled with the violinist’s 1947 premiere recording of the composer’s solo violin sonata (Menuhin commissioned
Albert Coates is best known as a wild, even fierce interpreter of Wagner and of Russian music. Born in St. Petersburg in 1882 of English
This is Roberto Alagna’s finest recording to date. He’s well-known for attempting to delineate characters–unlike most tenors–and he often succeeds. Here, in his impeccable French,
Rehearing these 1982 recordings leaves a mixed impression. Anne-Sophie Mutter (then 19 years old) is too forwardly balanced, diverting attention from the piano, which in
Paavo Berglund’s 1979 Dresden recording of Smetana’s Má Vlast appeared in EMI’s double-forte series and is now released by itself on Seraphim. Bargain Má Vlasts
