Your guide to classical music online
Your guide to classical music online
It is becoming increasingly evident that the value of SACD recordings lies in the use of multichannel format. An excellently made new digital recording transfered
If Bach’s viola da gamba and harpsichord sonatas played on the cello and piano hold appeal, then you’ll very likely enjoy these direct, clear-lined, slightly
This is a disc that many strictly “classical” listeners may pass over–not surprisingly, since this isn’t really a “classical” recording. However, its illustrious and very
For the most part Vladimir Horowitz is on his best late-period form in this previously unreleased (and presumably unedited) Berlin concert from May 18, 1986,
Complete Haydn cycles haven’t been lucky on disc, so thank God we have at least one very good one (Dorati’s). This from Dennis Russell Davies
Under Murray Perahia’s hands the works on this disc sound familiar yet fresh, not unlike viewing a famous painting after it’s been cleaned and restored.
Bernstein’s Brahms always has been a source of some controversy, though this earlier symphony cycle is not as mannered and perverse (or just plain slow)
Always full of surprises, Leonard Bernstein turns in one of the best ever recordings of Bizet’s delightful early symphony. The performance is vivacious, unaffected, graced
Leonard Bernstein’s second Brahms cycle, with the Vienna Philharmonic for Deutsche Grammophon, featured some of the slowest, most self-indulgent music making of his career, though
This was one of the first Broadway shows to exhibit any racial sensibility, as a Congressman is magically turned into an African American and must
