
Hermann Scherchen was, to put it mildly, a quirky conductor, […]
Fwwwwwaaahhhh! Ppplllllaaaahhh! So go the opening chords to Brahms’ Third
Kirill Kondrashin was an important, at times great Mahler conductor.
When the disgraced Willem Mengelberg, banished in the late 1940s
Furtwängler fans generally swear by his (in)famous 1942 “Nazi Ninth”,
It’s ironic that the late conductor René Köhler (1926-2002) gained posthumous fame, indeed infamy, for what he did not do, which was to accompany concerto
Any rare and unreleased material by Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli is bound to attract the pianist’s most rabid admirers. The three Scarlatti sonatas opening this disc
Pierre Monteux is commonly associated with Ravel and Stravinsky, and he won his initial acclaim by conducting the premieres of some of their seminal compositions.
Tahra unearths more previously unissued Beethoven broadcasts featuring the Concertgebouw Orchestra under Willem Mengelberg. Interpretively speaking, the Second Symphony performed on May 14, 1936 differs
Just for the record, Tahra offers the best sounding incarnation so far of the January 30, 1950 Berlin Philharmonic concert conducted by Hans Knappertsbusch. Under