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With the return of these stereo recordings by David Oistrakh and Lev Oborin (made in Paris in 1962), many collectors will find an automatic first
Remastered for Philips’ 50 Great Recordings series, the orchestral image in Hans Knappertsbusch’s 1962 Bayreuth Parsifal seems brighter, more forward than before, and I detect
One of the oldest of Wagner wisecracks has George Bernard Shaw looking down at his watch after an hour to find that only 15 minutes
This is a most stimulating set. Colin Davis has something to say about all of these works, the orchestral playing is often breathtakingly wonderful, and
This lastest entry in the “Philips 50” series came up for review after I had just heard this exact coupling on Eloquence, featuring Eduard van
To represent Alfred Brendel’s Beethoven, Philips selected these four “name” sonatas from the pianist’s digitally recorded cycle from the 1990s, as opposed to his 1970s
Arthur Grumiaux’s Mozart performances glowed, but his interpretations were always free of artifice and affectation, making his survey of the five violin concertos (it’s seldom
The British horn player Alan Civil makes a lithe and pleasing soloist in his performances of the Mozart concertos with Neville Marriner and the ASMF,
Arthur Grumiaux recorded his Philips traversal of the Bach solo Partitas and Sonatas in 1960-61. In many ways his readings never have been surpassed, although
Alfred Brendel’s Mozart concerto recordings for Philips remain among the most respected modern interpretations of these works. This new compilation–Concertos Nos. 15 and 21 (performances
