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Bernard Haitink’s 1970 Ein Heldenleben with the Concertgebouw is tremendously well played, and it’s good to hear a performance from a conductor who doesn’t present
This recording of Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder was made at Boston’s Symphony Hall in April, 1979. A distinguished cast of soloists headed by James McCracken (Waldemar), Jessye
The famous 1959 recording of Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” by I Musici with Felix Ayo as violin soloist is one of the longest-standing versions of this
Among the new issues from Philips honoring the 70th birthday of Alfred Brendel comes this new recording of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-flat
For a pianist purported to be microphone-shy it’s ironic how many of Sviatoslav Richter’s greatest recordings emanated from the studio. His fabled 1961 Liszt Concertos
This was the second of Colin Davis’ four recordings of the Symphonie fantastique, three of them for Philips alone. Was there anything in his interpretation
Here are valuable performances of some of the great Bach organ works, in stimulating and authoritative readings from organist Wolfgang Rubsam. It’s a collection most
The Long March of period conductors through the later repertory continues, leaving a wrecked and devastated Romantic-era musical landscape. The latest victim is Verdi, the
The rediscovery of Berlioz’s Messe solennelle probably was the musicological highpoint of the second half of the 20th century, yet it excited curiously little fanfare
Gardiner’s Bach hasn’t worn especially well. It’s fast, brilliant, disciplined, and almost completely expressionless. His recording of the Magnificant has an impersonal, steely urgency strangely
