

Daniele Gatti’s conducting on this CD offers an absolute clinic […]

When it comes to the Symphonie fantastique, collectors have long

My colleague Christophe Huss at CTFrance.com put his finger right

RCA’s impressively swift response to the death of Gunter Wand has righted a wrong I addressed on this very website: namely, the company’s deletion of

There’s not much to add to previous critical praise for this classic recording. Earl Wild is every bit as much inside Gershwin’s idiom as was

After his highly variable Mahler cycle, it’s very good to be able to report that David Zinman is back in top form for Brahms. For

If this recording is anything to go by, Evgeny Kissin is not so much miscast in Schubert’s sublime and difficult-to-sustain posthumous B-flat Sonata as he

RCA’s “Rediscovered” series has given us important, previously unreleased recitals by such major artists as Richter, Horowitz, and Heifetz. Jussi Björling is to singers what

David Zinman’s conception of the Ninth is interesting, and had it been better realized could have been really distinctive. The outer movements are very slow,

This set has been a crucial part of opera lovers’ collections for more than 40 years, and it’s still a necessity. The LPs distorted badly
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