

Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Das Lied von der Erde looks potentially promising on paper but fails to live up to its expectations. That’s too bad, because Salonen

A “pops” concert from 100 years ago might have included tuneful Central European chestnuts such as the ones on this disc. Would the orchestra have

This disc contains the CD premiere of Leonard Bernstein’s 1958 recording of Tchaikovsky’s Fourth. The Royal Edition previously offered his remake of a decade later,

George Szell’s Prokofiev Fifth is a swift, exciting performance that offers predictably razor-sharp orchestral execution. The recording, though, which dates from the late 1950s, is

This two-CD set is a composite of at least three LPs as well as a couple of bonuses, and fills a particular gap in the

All the way through this original program, Murray Perahia aims at one of the highest possible achievements for a pianist: to sing or speak on

All this material has appeared in Sony’s Glenn Gould Edition, along with previous CBS Gould CDs reissued in the late 1980s. The music is repackaged

Sony’s 1991 Igor Stravinsky Edition brought all the stereo recordings either conducted or supervised by the composer together in a boxed set, with a bonus

In the guise of a lullaby collection, this recording offers something for everyone, from the sappy and schmaltzy to the tender and endearing, from Haydn

Tribute albums sometimes can backfire and come across as acts of extreme hubris. The name of Jimi Hendrix, who wrote the six songs on this
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