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Sir Thomas Beecham is strongly identified with the orchestral music of Schubert, largely from these final recordings made over a period of years at different
It’s difficult to believe that it’s been 20 years since Simon Rattle first recorded Deryck Cooke’s treacherous performing version of Mahler’s 10th Symphony with the
Hindemith’s seven Kammermusik pieces don’t seem to last long in the catalog (at least here in the U.S. where titles get deleted unless they go
The concerto for two pianos started life in 1933 as a work for one piano and orchestra. Feeling the huge orchestra somewhat overbalanced one soloist,
Two critics might battle for hours, arguing which Golden Age Scheherazade is best. This one? Reiner’s? Ansermet’s? One of the eclectic, fringe favorites each of
It is always a delightful dilemma to be faced with recordings of the same works that are of almost equal caliber. That is the case
An album of this sort seems as much concocted to present a portrait of the artist as to offer interpretations of the music–and there’s no
The CD booklet for this release refers to Nino Rota as an “old-fashioned composer” and one who had the “courage to go his own way
Andrei Gavrilov’s 1987 EMI cycle of the Bach Keyboard Concertos (played on the concert grand) generally finds this Russian firebrand on his best pianistic behavior.
This 70 minutes of a 1987 recording of The Marriage of Figaro offers both of the Countess’ arias, the Count’s, two of Figaro’s, both of
