
Günter Wand did not accord Schumann the same prominence in his repertoire that he did Beethoven, Schubert, Bruckner, and Brahms. In any event, there are
This is the very same Horowitz/Rachmaninov coupling that was issued just a few years ago on RCA’s High Performance audiophile series. The current issue boasts
Just when you thought you’d heard it all, along comes Nikolaus Harnoncourt to teach you and thing or two. Now as we all know, there
These performances were recently available separately on RCA Living Stereo CDs, and their reappearance on one mid-priced disc is certainly welcome. Heifetz’s legendary singing tone,
André Previn’s RCA Shostakovich Fifth with the London Symphony was rightly regarded as one of the finest versions of the LP era, finer overall than
Pierre Monteux’s Stravinsky recordings never will be remembered for their rhythmic precision, but it’s hard to fault their unerring sense of style and character. Petrushka
It’s about time. More than a decade after the release of its first Zappa album, Yellow Shark, the redoubtable Ensemble Modern has put together another
Evgeny Kissin’s astoundingly proficient Brahms Paganini Variations recording from the mid 1990s made me wonder how he’d approach the composer’s equally demanding yet less demonstrably
La juive premiered the same year as Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor (1835) and was even more successful in its time than its Italian contemporary, with
An album of this sort, from the Robert Shaw Chorale in its heyday, practically defies criticism. Sixteen chanties and songs are featured in arrangements by
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