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This Bruckner Seventh, Wand’s third go at the piece, sounds absolutely magnificent in all respects–interpretation, playing, and sound. He sets flowing tempos and holds each
Can these magnificent-sounding, scintillatingly executed 1954 benchmarks in the annals of recorded Strauss really be a half-century old? They haven’t dated a bit, except for
This complete performance of Rigoletto from 1964 includes not only the Duke’s second-act cabaletta, but more gloriously, the cadenza that Verdi composed (and not an
Colin Davis is a fine Mozartean, as most readers/listeners will already know. His Philips recordings of the late symphonies with this orchestra stand among the
Highly publicized, mass-marketed classical music acts tend to get my goat and fuel my cynicism. For example, when I received The 5 Browns second CD
Claus Peter Flor’s Mendelssohn enjoys the classical virtues of good taste, fine attention to detail, and a real sense of style. That said, competition in
Much heralded as the auspicious beginning of a new–and now defunct–recording contract with RCA, Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony’s Romeo & Juliet
This is one of those proverbial “desert island” discs. Perhaps Martinon and Gould’s experience and insight as composers explains why they understood what Nielsen wanted:
Here the wonderful Mexican lyric tenor Ramon Vargas joins with other singers to present a program of duets and one trio. When the pairing and
The novelty here for many listeners will be Ormandy’s Mahler First–a solid performance, wonderfully played (especially by the strings–listen to them rip into the opening
