
The years that Vladimir Horowitz spent as an exclusive artist with Columbia Masterworks from 1962 to 1973 represented a kind of artistic rebirth for the
Vladimir Horowitz’s May 9, 1965 Carnegie Hall return marked the legendary virtuoso’s first recital following a 12-year absence from playing in public. Columbia Masterworks recorded
Vladimir Horowitz’s affinity with the music of Scriabin bordered on clairvoyance, and his interpretations captured the composer’s necromantic spirit like few others. The pianist’s mercurial
Excellently remixed and remastered for their first CD incarnation in 1987, the 1959-61 Fleisher/Szell Beethoven concerto collaborations subsequently appeared in Sony’s Essential Classics budget line
This is tenor Salvatore Licitra’s second solo CD, and it is far better than his first. The voice remains exciting, a true tenor with a
George Szell wasn’t known for his Tchaikovsky, and he didn’t record all that much of him. There’s a very good Fourth Symphony on Decca (with
Musical prodigy Jay Greenberg is only 15, and this is already his Fifth Symphony. It’s not a great work by any means; none of history’s
As time goes on, Leonard Bernstein’s New York recording of Petrushka only gains in stature. There are two ways to perform this music: as a
It’s good to have all of Murray Perahia’s solo Bartok recordings together in one place. In fact, the pianist’s 1973 recording of the Sonata never
Glenn Gould’s 1964 recording of the Bach Two- and Three-Part Inventions needs little introduction to collectors, for the simple reason that Sony has reissued it