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This high-rating reissue brings accomplished violin playing and excellent sound. Cho-Liang Lin is heard first in the perennial favorite G minor Bruch concerto, with the
This recording presents a performance of H.C. Robbins Landon’s edition of Mozart’s Requiem, a product of modern scholarship, sound musicological argument, and learned intuition. It
Hilary Hahn continues to impress. Her Barber ranks with the finest available, and moreover, does so by taking a personal approach to the music, far
Listening to John Williams’ latest contribution to the Star Wars epic is a lot like hearing Die Walküre for the first time after having memorized
One of the most perfect performances of anything that I ever heard live featured Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony in Mahler’s Ninth. His interpretation
Instead of Arleen Augér and the Requiem, the cover of this Sony Essential Classics disc should feature Judith Blegen and Exsultate, jubilate, for it’s this
After more than 10 years, these 1960s-vintage recordings receive their second incarnation in Sony Classics’ “Essential Classics” series. Listeners who already have the original disc,
The main interest in Eugene Ormandy’s Symphonie fantastique is the excellent playing of the Philadelphia Orchestra, which gives a good old-fashioned virtuoso performance highlighted by
The Gilels/Ormandy Chopin E minor concerto mainly impresses for its surface sheen. As a Chopinist, Gilels was not the colorist and tone poet Arthur Rubinstein
George Szell leads taut, energetic, and texturally detailed performances of both symphonies–no surprise to anyone familiar with the other discs in this series. Szell’s briskly
