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Reference Recording: Bertini Offers the Best Complete Mahler Cycle

David Hurwitz

This Mahler cycle has had a checkered history on disc. […]

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Reference Recording: Muti Delivers The Ultimate Modern Boléro

David Hurwitz

There are many fine recordings of Ravel’s ubiquitous Boléro, but

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Under the Radar: Smashing Bruckner Te Deum and Mozart Requiem from Barenboim

David Hurwitz

Barenboim’s Mozart Requiem seldom gets mentioned in the Best Requiem

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Under the Radar: Muti’s Vicious, Thrilling Rite (and Pictures)

David Hurwitz

These two scorching performances document the early partnership between Riccardo

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Big Boxes: 20 CDs of Dame Granite–er, Janet–Baker

David Hurwitz

Although the nickname was a joke, Janet Baker was indeed

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Under the Radar: Mackerras’ First (and best?) Beethoven Cycle

David Hurwitz

I’m torn. When Hyperion released Mackerras’ second Beethoven cycle with

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Big Boxes: Boult’s Endless Elgar

David Hurwitz

It’s interesting that Adrian Boult did not show much initial

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Perfect Pairing from Jochum’s Dresden Bruckner Set

David Hurwitz

The problem with issuing Bruckner symphonies in the popular “duo”

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Reference Recording: Jochum’s Savage Bruckner Ninth

David Hurwitz

If you want to hear this symphony played with savage,

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Under the Radar: Maazel’s Extraordinary Bruckner Eighth

David Hurwitz

This exceptional performance is undoubtedly one of the reference recordings

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The Busoni Concerto We’ve Been Waiting For

Jed Distler April 20, 2025

Busoni: Works for Two Pianos

David Hurwitz April 20, 2025

Busoni: Terminally Droopy Orchestral Works

David Hurwitz April 20, 2025

Benjamin Bernheim Rules as Met’s Hoffmann
by Robert Levine
October 6, 2024
Benjamin Bernheim Rules as Met’s Hoffmann Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, NY; Oct 24, 2024 Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann is a nasty work. Despite its
RIP David Vernier, Editor-in-Chief
by David Hurwitz
August 4, 2024
David Vernier, ClassicsToday.com’s founding Editor-in-Chief passed away Thursday morning, August 1, 2024 after a long battle with cancer. The end came shockingly quickly. Just a
Finally, It’s SIR John
by ClassicsToday
June 24, 2024
He’d received many honors before, but it wasn’t until last week that John Rutter, best known for his choral compositions and arrangements, especially works related