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This 1977 performance boasts the finest Dulcamara on disc–Geraint Evans–in a performance both unique in its lack of buffo bluster and in its remarkable “face”;
There are several glorious things about this 1978 performance. Frederica von Stade’s Hansel is just about perfect, bettering even Elisabeth Grümmer’s (on EMI). She’s in
New recordings of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto appear with such regularity these days that it’s easy to take them for granted. After all, what can any
According to an anecdote in Harold C. Schonberg’s Vladimir Horowitz biography, George Szell called Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto “a piece of s…”–and perhaps that’s true,
This is Leonard Bernstein’s later version of Shostakovich’s Fifth, captured live while the New York Philharmonic was on tour in Tokyo. It’s an excellent performance,
Rudolf Serkin’s gaunt tone and impassioned phrasing, along with Eugene Ormandy’s robust, alert support, have long distinguished this 1964 recording of Schumann’s A minor concerto
Star Wars fans–and lovers of symphonic film music in general–won’t be disappointed as John Williams continues the high level of imagination he has shown over
The notion of fantasy bonds these four John Corigliano works in title and spirit. In the Fancy on a Bach Air, the composer forges a
Emanuel Ax and Yefim Bronfman’s carefully thought out and well regulated ensemble work in Brahms’ F minor sonata often appears to echo the string sonorities
The combination of Rudolf Serkin and Frédéric Chopin may come as a surprise to collectors, yet this pianist actually cultivated a repertoire wider than the
