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Paavo Järvi does an excellent job in both the first movement and Adagio, particularly the former, where his transitions and tempo adjustments have a naturalness
About the time I started collecting LPs, everyone was agog over Toscanini’s Verdi Requiem and Te Deum. The transfers were so bad you couldn’t prove
Gary Graffman’s Chopin Ballades met with qualified praise at the time of their original 1959 release, at least from two reviewers who cited great fingerwork
What a Brahms cycle! Günter Wand’s fairly brisk tempos, astute sense of linear clarity, and palpable dynamic intensity often hold a modern-day sonic mirror to
By his own account, Jean-Marc Luisada recorded his 1992 Chopin Mazurka cycle for DG at the label’s request, with two months notice, and had to
Critical consensus never ranked this 1959 Gary Graffman/Charles Munch Brahms D minor concerto on par with its reference 1950s and ’60s competitors (Fleisher/Szell, Serkin/Szell, Arrau/Giulini,
This celebrated recording of the almost-complete Gayne finally makes it to CD, and it’s as fresh and exciting as you may remember. About 75 percent
Bruckner recordings are still coming fast and furious (that is, the rate of release, not tempo of performance necessarily). Paavo Järvi clearly has a vision
For 20 years (1940-60) Alfred Newman presided over the music division at Fox studios, enlisting the talents of a remarkable stable of composers and in
No performance of the Ninth with chamber forces has ever done it justice, and good as this is (or at least consistent as this cycle
