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Major classical artists often re-record their specialties, from Stokowski’s four Scheherezades to umpteen Karajan Beethoven cycles. Similarly, the great German pianist Walter Gieseking seemed to
Here’s a real bargain: three LPs-worth of excellent Berlioz performances on two CDS, offered for the price of one! Leonard Bernstein’s dramatic yet classically structured
Zubin Mehta has recorded this symphony three times, each performance a little slower and a lot more self-conscious than the last. This EMI CD is
Recent reissues featuring violinist Josef Suk have helped edge this musician back into his well-deserved limelight. Purity of tone and sobriety of interpretive outlook characterize
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli’s classic recordings of the Ravel G major and Rachmaninov G minor concertos have never been out of the catalog since they first
These sturdy performances date from the 1970s, when André Previn was music director of the London Symphony Orchestra. They are rich, romantic interpretations, more symphonic
Not unexpectedly, these performances share a lot in common with the ones in the companion set devoted to Symphonies 1, 2, 3, and 8. They
Although Aldo Ciccolini is best known by way of his acclaimed late-1960s Erik Satie cycle for EMI, his repertoire ranges far and wide, with pitstops
Youri Egorov made a handful of recordings for EMI before his tragic early death at 33 from AIDS. The present “Double Forte” features the pianist’s
In 1998, as part of its Klemperer Edition, EMI released a marvelous live recording of the Mahler Second Symphony featuring the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
