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As a student in the mid-1970s I became acquainted with Bartók’s string quartets through three recorded cycles. First I got to know the gaunt profile
Dvorák’s 14 string quartets stand as the finest and most imposing works in the medium after Beethoven (and until Shostakovich), though the early works certainly
What fun this disc is! True, today you can get all three Bartók piano concertos on a single disc, but these two performances from the
Nikolaj Znaider has a lovely, singing tone and prefers long-breathed, legato phrasing even in virtuoso passage-work. His ability to play quick passages in double-stops so
David Zinman follows the current trend in placing the Andante second, a mistake in my view on purely musical grounds. Mahler’s own performance history tells
Eugene Ormandy’s gutsy, raw, and edgy opening to Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony comes as a bit of a shock after hearing the recent, rather anemic version
Four of Günter Wand’s commercial recordings of Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony were released on RCA (at least two simultaneously). Of those, this 1987 version was the
Sony/BMG’s second Vladimir Horowitz Original Jacket edition draws on the piano legend’s RCA Victor recordings, dating from the late 1920s up through his 1982 London
To several generations of music lovers, Arthur Rubinstein and Frédéric Chopin were one and the same, and it’s entirely fitting for Sony/BMG to lavish “Original
Although no audience appears to be present throughout this Liszt recital recorded in Tokyo’s Aoyama Tower Hall on June 11 and 12, 1972, both the
