
The accolades that Bernard Haitink’s wretchedly dreary Vaughan Williams cycle consistently receives in the UK only serve to prove, as if further proof were necessary,
This new Roberto Alagna disc offers a welcome and enjoyable collection of popular and less-well-known French opera arias. Along with the more or less standard
Simon Gibson’s remastering of this famous 1953 Salzburg Festival Wolf recital is less strident on top than the excellent-quality Fonit Cetra LPs released in the
Rather than presenting Chopin’s waltzes in numerical order, as is often the case, Dmitri Alexeev reorders the “basic 14” to maximize their diversity. The five
In this collection of short works for cello and orchestra Han-Na Chang displays the robust tone and broad musical strokes that have gained her some
Two of the finest recordings of Paganini’s Violin Concerto No. 4 in D minor–Henryk Szeryng’s Philips account with the London Symphony under Alexander Gibson, and
Salvatore Accardo’s famous DG survey of the Paganini violin concertos with Charles Dutoit and the London Philharmonic, recorded during the mid-1970s, has recently reappeared in
This EMI “Great Recordings of the Century” reissue contains a classic performance of Schubert’s song cycle Schwanengesang D.957, and a further group of four songs,
Salvatore Accardo’s latest recordings of Paganini’s Violin Concerto in E minor (sometimes known as No. “0” but more usually listed as No. 6) and Concerto
Do these live 1978/79 Schumann and Ravel recordings from the Concertgebouw featuring Martha Argerich complement the mercurial pianist’s studio versions of the same works, as