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George Szell brings classical lightness and drive to Beethoven’s early symphony, all the while pointing up the composer’s daring formal and harmonic inventiveness. In the
Take a supervirtuoso like Volodos, current king of the Romantic transcription hill, honcho of Horowitzisms, and knower of no keyboard difficulties, and give him two
After a slew of second-rate Slavonic Dances recordings, it’s gratifying to once again make acquaintance with this classic Szell reading. Yes, the sound’s a bit
Thomas Beecham’s Abbey Road recordings often sounded finer than those from other locations because the sound engineers’ best equipment was set up there and couldn’t
London’s Walthamstow Town Hall was the venue for many Beecham recordings, including these Mozart symphonies, taped in 1950 (K. 551) and 1954 (K. 385 and
This 1949 recording (originally on 78s) of North Country Sketches already has appeared on CD in Sony’s British Pageant series. The very start of the
Thomas Beecham recorded these Berlioz overtures for English Columbia in December, 1954 when his hand-picked Royal Philharmonic boasted the best of London’s orchestral players. The
James Horner’s lyrical and elegiac score for Iris matches the film’s sensitive and sentimental portrayal of a woman succumbing to Alzheimer’s disease. Horner creates a
A warm welcome back to the catalogue for one of the all-time great cello discs. The original Columbia LP by Leonard Rose and Leonid Hambro
This is a very satisfying recital, one that avoids the usual same-voice-for-an-hour tedium by dint of Marcello Alvarez’s ability to color his tone and words
