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Stoki’s Planets doesn’t monkey around with Holst’s orchestration as much as might be expected: a tam-tam crescendo at the end of “Mars”, some fiddling in
William Steinberg’s Pathétique is lean and sinewy but not without its own tender moments and delicate touches. The first movement’s “big tune” gets lovingly caressed
Perhaps Thomas Beecham wasn’t a “great” conductor in the cosmic scheme of things, but he could bring certain composers’ music to life in a way
This latest reissue of a reissue re-couples Stoki’s Carmina Burana, formerly attached to Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite, with Loeffler’s A Pagan Poem, last seen alongside Gliere’s
This recording attracts attention every time it resurfaces. Michael Rabin’s healthy cult following is probably due as much to the fact that he died tragically
This Gurrelieder stems from a live performance (as most do) recorded in Copenhagen in 1968. A marvelous set of soloists was assembled for the occasion,
Navah Perlman’s debut recital disc reveals the considerable degree to which the 28-year-old pianist has matured in the past decade. Her Bach C minor Toccata,
Georges Cziffra (1921-94) invariably polarized critical opinion, arousing stormy controversy everywhere he played. In works by the Viennese classicists Cziffra was rightly censured, yet his
Originally issued on five full-priced CDs, Aldo Ciccolini’s 1991 EMI Debussy cycle breezed in and out of the catalog in a flash. The discs are
Appearing for the first time under EMI’s “official” auspices, these live Dinu Lipatti concerto broadcasts add three major works to the short-lived pianist’s recorded repertoire.
