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Unbelievable! Just when you thought you’d heard it all, along comes a new Beethoven symphony disc that proves once again that there’s no such thing
With the release of this “on-demand” title, Arkivmusic.com restores to commercial availability one of the most influential orchestra recordings ever made–the first release in RCA’s
Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s long period-performance experience impels him to deploy a Vienna Philharmonic that sounds little like the orchestra we expect in Brahms’ German Requiem–instead of
The Living Stereo SACDs are here, and they sound fabulous. Here is a case in point. Careful remastering outclasses all previous releases of this music,
Had James Levine finished his Mahler cycle with Nos. 2 and 8 it might well have been the finest available. Rehearing these performances it’s amazing
Evgeny Kissin is an interpreter who tends to shoot from the hip in the big Romantic masterpieces, resulting in many moments of genius rubbing up
Evgeny Kissin does an excellent job with this well-planned recital, featuring three very different Russian composers active in the first decades of the 20th century:
This is the kind of release that is fully worthy of a major label like RCA: two of today’s top artists working at peak form,
No timbral difference distinguishes RCA’s SACD of Arthur Rubinstein’s 1961 Chopin E minor concerto recording from the label’s most recent transfer in its complete Rubinstein
Thanks to Arkivmusic.com’s “on demand” program this Japanese RCA title is available domestically, and it’s an important one. Yes, the sonics are nothing to write
