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Lorin Maazel leads a rather slowish Brahms Requiem that emphasizes the work’s devotional characteristics. The relaxed tempos combined with an overall heaviness of texture makes
When this disc was issued back in the late 1970s the world was still in love with Kiri Te Kanawa’s beautiful tone and had not
These are extremely fine recordings, topped only by Boulez himself on DG, performances not necessarily “better”, but certainly sonically superior. Still, I retain a marginal
This is a terrifically exciting performance of Orff’s popular chestnut. Tempos are swift, from the opening “O fortuna” onward. The soloists are uniformly excellent, especially
Sony has many excellent versions of Pictures at an Exhibition in its catalog, including the finest of all: Ormandy/Philadelphia. Bernstein and Szell are also pretty
These performances, the excellence of which is well known (as is their less than stellar sonic quality), acquire a new lease on life in multi-channel
If you’re looking for a generous, well-chosen selection of Mozart highlights, this three-disc set assembled in honor of the composer’s 250th birthday is just the
In 1955 a 22-year-old Canadian pianist named Glenn Gould made his major-label debut with Bach’s Goldberg Variations, which turned out to be one of classical
Sony’s sonic refurbishing of Murray Perahia’s Schubert Impromptus leads me to wonder if the different venues and microphone placements color my perception of the pianist’s
Alfred Cortot founded the École Normale de Musique in 1919, where he taught master classes in piano interpretation until his death in 1962. Between 1954
