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Morton Gould’s Jungle Drums: A Tribute to the Fabulous ’50s

David Hurwitz

This is the way crossover should be: luscious, exotic, slightly […]

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Big Boxes: The Heifetz-Piatigorsky Concerts

David Hurwitz

Many of these “original jacket” releases exist for no other

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Reference Recording: The Best Carmen Without Carmen

David Hurwitz

What to do about Carmen? The tunes are so great,

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Odd Reiner Compilation, Superb Performances

David Hurwitz

This disc contains a grab-bag of unrelated pieces, a quixotic

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Reference Recording: Gould and Copland Conduct Themselves

David Hurwitz

In general, Copland was not an especially compelling conductor, even

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Under The Radar: Reiner’s Revelatory Das Lied von der Erde

David Hurwitz

New to the Living Stereo series, this recording gets my

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Reference Recording: Has Reiner’s “Pictures” Ever Been Bettered?

Victor Carr Jr

Comparing RCA’s new Reiner Mussorgsky Pictures SACD to its previous

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Reference Recording: Reiner’s Scheherazade and Song of the Nightingale

David Hurwitz

I listen in awe of these performances, whose luster hasn’t

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Reiner’s Respighi Still Leads the Pack

Joseph Stevenson

Listening to these exquisite SACD remasterings of half-century-old classic Living

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CD From Hell: Olga Scheps’ Russian Album

Jed Distler

Twenty-seven-year-old Moscow-born pianist Olga Scheps first came to my attention

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Dausgaard Plays A Mean Mahler 10

David Hurwitz July 13, 2025

A Mahler Cycle From–You Guessed It–Dusseldorf

David Hurwitz July 13, 2025

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CD From Hell: Bad Transfers of Kletzki’s Embarrassing Mahler 1 and 9

David Hurwitz July 13, 2025

Benjamin Bernheim Rules as Met’s Hoffmann
by Robert Levine
October 6, 2024
Benjamin Bernheim Rules as Met’s Hoffmann Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, NY; Oct 24, 2024 Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann is a nasty work. Despite its
RIP David Vernier, Editor-in-Chief
by David Hurwitz
August 4, 2024
David Vernier, ClassicsToday.com’s founding Editor-in-Chief passed away Thursday morning, August 1, 2024 after a long battle with cancer. The end came shockingly quickly. Just a
Finally, It’s SIR John
by ClassicsToday
June 24, 2024
He’d received many honors before, but it wasn’t until last week that John Rutter, best known for his choral compositions and arrangements, especially works related