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Whoever curated the two-disc compilation in Universal Classics’ Steinway Legends set devoted to Claudio Arrau did an outstanding job, notwithstanding the fact that the early-1950s
The Polish pianist Jan Smeterlin (1892-1967) left a small discography, crowned by his Chopin Nocturne cycle recorded for Philips in 1954, reissued 40 years later
If you want Mozart’s piano sonatas served up with limpid grace, surface charm, consistently steady rhythms, elegant fingerwork and sparkle, you probably won’t like Claudio
Mitsuko Uchida and Kurt Sanderling’s Beethoven cycle reaches its apex with an “Emperor” concerto that ranks with Schnabel, Solomon, Kempff, Arrau, Fleisher, and Gieseking among
Americana?–well yes, but chunks of this repertoire wouldn’t have figured on my essential wants-list of American works for violin and piano. And there are some
These live Beethoven Sonata BBC Broadcast transmissions from Queen Elizabeth Hall featuring Alfred Brendel (newly available courtesy of Arkivmusic.com’s on demand reprint program) should not
Just a few Art of Fugue piano recordings graced the catalog before Zoltan Kocsis’ 1984 Philips traversal, now available again via Arkivmusic.com’s on-demand reprint program.
How did this peach of a Mozart disc slip through the cracks? No matter, it’s back in the catalog, thanks to Arkivmusic.com’s on-demand reprint program.
Wolfgang Holzmair and Imogen Cooper have made several outstanding lieder recordings for Philips. Here’s another: songs of Robert and Clara Schumann. There’s no disputing the
Recorded in July 1985, this is the sixth of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau’s seven commercially published versions of Schubert’s Winterreise, and easily the finest of the baritone’s
