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Here’s another spectacular release from RCA Japan’s Ormandy/Philadelphia edition, courtesy of Arkivmusic.com’s “on demand” program. These are wonderful, truly Romantic performances featuring amazing playing, string
David Zinman captures this music’s freshness and innocence very well. He’s particularly attentive to textural details, evident in consistently tasteful string portamentos and in his
Like so many German stage directors working today, Nikolaus Harnoncourt does nothing without a “concept”. Sometimes these work and yield fascinating insights into music we
This “on demand” reissue from Arkivmusic.com offers bright and bubbly performances of an odd but curiously apt coupling. Both works are neoclassical in style as
Eduardo Mata was a wonderful conductor in colorful, late-Romantic repertoire. His Ravel cycle (excepting Daphnis) and Pictures at an Exhibition for RCA were wonderful, and
Previously, Vesselina Kasarova has proved herself on CD in lighter fare, in operas by Mozart, Rossini, and Bellini. Here we get another side–or another angle–of
It’s good to see this disc back in print courtesy of Arkivmusic.com’s “on demand” program. Claus Peter Flor leads a sober, “Germanic” performance of Franck’s
RCA’s Leontyne Price collection offers a generous sampling of the various Puccini roles she performed on stage as well as those she sang only in
Of Georg Solti’s two recordings of the Verdi Requiem, I slightly prefer this later one, though I realize that this isn’t received wisdom. The Decca
With these marvelous performances of the three Brahms violin sonatas, Nikolaj Znaider hits his artistic stride, abetted by Yefim Bronfman’s impeccable piano partnership. The G
