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Sony Classical’s budget price release of a 1978 Beethoven cycle
Like the previously released Szell edition from Sony, this is
Every couple of decades the classical music scene seems to discover a fabulous trumpeter who reminds us that trumpet concertos are a thing and actually
Any pianist in his late 20s recording a four-CD all-Scarlatti release for a major label is bound to attract serious scrutiny. From a purely technical
In their biography of Bruno Walter, Erik Ryding and Rebecca
Sony/BMG’s Zubin Mehta Complete Columbia Album Collection opens with his
Reviewing Igor Levit’s stunning 2013 solo CD debut featuring Beethoven’s last five piano sonatas, I wrote how the then-26-year-old pianist’s affinity for the composer’s essentially
We are fortunate that the premiere recording of Shostakovich’s Cello
In its eight years of existence from 1948 to 1956,