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Decca’s ongoing survey of Bartók’s solo piano works from Zoltán Kocsis now reaches Volume 7. Kocsis gives impressive, insightful performances, to which Bartók scholar László
Philip Glass’ 1992 Low Symphony is based on an album of the same name by David Bowie and Brian Eno. Taking thematic material from the
The combination of “traditional” soloist with period orchestra always promises interesting possibilities. Viktoria Mullova and John Eliot Gardiner find themselves of one mind with respect
It’s really amazing how different the Kirov Orchestra appears on recordings as opposed to its live performances. In concert, the orchestra impresses as a no-better-than-average
This is one of Valery Gergiev’s finer performances on disc. His rhythmically taut, propulsive conducting makes for a powerful rendition of Shostakovich’s Leningrad Symphony–one that
My colleague Jed Distler found some of Mitsuko Uchida’s cloying mannerisms rather distracting and artificial in this release of Schubert piano works (type Q5040 in
Your chief motivation for purchasing this reissue will most likely be the chance to get Pierre Monteux’s 1964 complete Mother Goose. It’s still an extremely
Now here’s a surround-sound SACD that actually lives up to its potential. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that it originally was
It’s funny how many conductors get one Elgar Symphony or the other, but not both. Adrian Boult always did a fine Elgar 2 but wasn’t
Some recordings of Bartok’s Violin Concerto emphasize the work’s romantic and lyrical tendencies, while others play up its abrasive and acerbic nature. Of the former
