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The Ernest Ansermet volume is one of the best of EMI’s Great Conductors series. It includes terrific, well-chosen performances, only a pair of which are
Bach’s cello suites abound in superlative recordings, from Casals’ still potent pioneering set (Naxos) to riveting cycles from Boris Pergamenschikov (Hänssler) and Torleif Thedéen (BIS)
The volume devoted to Czech conductor Karel Ancerl is one of the best of EMI’s variable Great Conductors series. With the exception of Shostakovich’s Festive
These performances were first released in 1995 as part of a two-disc “Martha Argerich and Friends” Schumann chamber music collection, and it’s great to have
This is a complicated disc, one that is easier to admire than enjoy. Roberto Alagna’s technique has solidified into something admirable; the high notes–of which
Igor Markevitch was one of the greats, as can be heard in the overdue reissue of Tchaikovsky’s Manfred Symphony that opens this set. (Markevitch’s Manfred
For listeners enamored of the icy-cold string scrapes and screeches of Penderecki’s Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima, this double-disc set devoted to his orchestral
These days Fritz Busch is little known outside the circles of the cognoscenti, and even there he’s sometimes confused with his brother, violinist/conductor Adolf Busch.
That Erich Kleiber was a major conductor is evident to anyone familiar with his Decca recordings of Strauss’ Rosenkavalier, Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro, and the
The two Liszt recitals André Watts recorded for EMI in the 1980s have drifted in and out of EMI’s midline catalog and now reappear as
