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A potent fusion of intellectual severity and technical finesse brings rare distinction to Mitsuko Uchida’s new Philips survey of key Second Viennese School piano works.
There are remarkably few first-class recordings of Mozart’s last two symphonies currently available. This is one of them, and then some. I well remember my
Antal Dorati’s Mercury recordings helped put him on the map as a Tchaikovsky conductor and his years as a ballet conductor helped him win a
This is a great performance of Massenet’s maudlin melodrama. In 1980, when it was recorded, José Carreras was only a few years past his prime,
This Debussy reissue is a must-have for any collection. The Prélude (recorded in 1976) is beautifully and affectingly done. While the un-credited flute soloist is
Claudio Arrau’s famous 1978 traversal of the Chopin Nocturnes was recorded at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and originally released on LP in Philips’ Trésors Classiques series.
If you want a performance of Tchaikovsky’s first truly great symphony that goes for the jugular to the exclusion of all other qualities, this powerful
If I had to describe the photograph on this CD booklet’s front, it would appear that violinist Mark Steinberg and pianist Mitsuko Uchida had just
Dating from the 1960s and ’70s, Stephen Kovacevich’s complete Beethoven recordings for Philips are gathered together in a budget-priced boxed set. His objective, somewhat cool
Time and again over the course of these warm-sounding, intimately engineered recordings of Beethoven’s piano and cello works Alfred Brendel’s seasoned keyboard artistry diverts attention
