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The booklet notes (such as they are, almost two large-type pages) begin: “Welcome to the Opera Album–a celebration of the most famous singers and most
Lars Vogt’s phrasing in the Schumann Concerto flip-flops between militant (the brusque, in-tempo introductory measures and the machine-like 16th-note patterns in the flippantly-paced Finale) and
This performance of Scheherazade remains one of the finer modern versions, sumptuous as might be expected from Philadelphia, but with an extra rhythmic edge thanks
Recorded in the late 1980s, Christian Zacharias’ Beethoven concerto cycle for EMI was irregularly available in the U.S. as a special import. Here, the Fourth
Christian Zacharias’ suave keyboard mastery throughout these much-loved Mozart concertos mirrors the composer’s famous comment to the effect that the phrasing should “flow like oil”.
My review of the first of the EMI “encore” pair of discs encompassing David Oistrakh’s incomparable performances of Mozart’s Violin Concertos can be accessed by
Reissued at budget price, the Labèque sisters’ 1988 follow-up to their first EMI Gershwin outing offers vigorous music-making compromised by harsh, metallic sonics. As a
In his heyday, the 1950s and ’60s, André Cluytens never quite enjoyed the international stature of Munch, Paray, Ansermet, and Monteux, to name just some
Carl Schuricht was the kind of conductor that gives the term “Kappelmeister” a positive spin. Like many of the Austro-German timebeaters we associate with what
The recordings of Nikolai Golovanov have acquired a cult following among specialist collectors, who find his energetic, idiosyncratic interpretations stimulating, different, refreshing, and individual. To
