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Valery Gergiev gives the Fifth an admirably direct, clean performance full of excitement and intensity. He builds the first movement’s central climax with unerring skill,
Summing up this performance in a nutshell (for the whole shebang, type Q7072 in Search Reviews), it gets better as it goes and closes with
Early in her international career, Mitsuko Uchida gained renown for playing Mozart, garnering acclaim for her complete recorded cycles of the composer’s concertos and sonatas
Joseph von Eichendorff’s evocative poetry redolent of forest depths, love’s joys and disappointments, melancholy brooding, and dark night thoughts, inspired countless composers. Baritone Wolfgang Holzmair
Recorded in 1974 with modern instruments but with a fine Baroque sensibility (Jeffrey Tate is the always audible, almost aggressive harpsichordist), Vivaldi’s only (extant) oratorio
Valery Gergiev turns in a generally fine Symphonie fantastique, one that really heats up in the last two movements, as any good performance must. The
Claudio Arrau came to Schubert’s sonatas in the twilight of his long recording career during the late 1970s and early 1980s. The C minor sonata
If you type Q149 in Search Reviews you’ll find my review of the Archiv performance of this opera, which is the one you should own.
This is a strangely unsatisfying performance. The playing of Sir Neville’s Academy is exemplary, with perfect articulation in the string figures and spicy winds–and aside
This six-disc set contains Claudio Arrau’s complete Liszt output for the Philips label. It includes several items absent from Philips’ “Arrau Edition” Liszt box–namely the
