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It’s a slow trek across the snow in Valdimir Fedoseyev’s rendition of Tchaikovsky’s Winter Daydreams symphony. With a leaden pulse that never varies, the first
Yoel Levi and his Atlanta band provide meaty performances in this set of Rossini overtures recorded for Telarc in 1994, now available at lower price
Musical Heritage Society is doing yeoman work in keeping available excellent but rapidly deleted titles such as this one. Herbert Blomstedt coaxes magnificent playing from
Musical Heritage Society offers a solid performance of the Planets from Telarc’s back catalog, one with superb playing by the Royal Philharmonic and inspired conducting
Zdenek Macal conducts a sumptuously pleasant Má Vlast, one keenly attuned to the music’s pastoral elements and rich colors, vividly realized by the fine musicians
Simon Rattle’s second go at Mahler’s Tenth is similar to his first, both in regard to the generally quick and flowing tempos and in his
Christmas carols are the musical equivalent of sitting ducks, defenselessly posed in the gunsights of any arranger with a loaded pen or performer with the
Bet you didn’t know that there were enough Rossini overtures to fill three compact discs, did you? Well, here they are, all 28 of them.
Why isn’t this beautiful, finely crafted, and immediately accessible work part of the standard large-scale choral/orchestral Christmas repertoire? Yes, it’s an anachronistic and not very
These performances were recorded in the early 1980s when the Berlin Philharmonic was still very much Herbert von Karajan’s orchestra (though their relationship had begun
