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If you love French melodies, then 80 minutes of Gérard Souzay in his prime makes this a necessary acquisition. Everything here was recorded in the
Collectors familiar with the ample elegance and scrupulous technical authority of Claudio Arrau’s Beethoven concerto recordings will find exactly that in these previously unpublished live
Paris-born Pierre Fournier (1906-1986) was the leading French cellist of his time, renowned for his elegant playing of the standard repertoire and for his ties
From 1953-1968 the Swiss lyric soprano Lisa Della Casa was a Met mainstay whose radiant voice and presence graced the Strauss and Mozart operas that
The stylistic sympathy and technical élan Wilhelm Backhaus brought to his pioneering 1928 HMV set of Chopin’s Etudes had largely eroded when he came to
Listeners curious about Moura Lympany’s 1951 Rachmaninov Preludes cycle for Decca (expertly refurbished by Testament) should not expect the kind of thunder, thrust, or surface
Mischa Elman’s prime years in the late teens and early 1920s were overshadowed by the arrival of Jascha Heifetz, who ushered in the modern violin
Mischa Elman’s style personified Russian Romanticism in its liberal rubato, arched phrasings, pronounced string portamento, and heart-on-sleeve sentiment. However, it was eclipsed when the violinist’s
Wilhelm Backhaus’ 1952 recording of Beethoven’s Second Concerto with the Vienna Philharmonic falls short of his stereo remake six years later. The main problem lies
You may remember a film from the early 1970s called Henry VIII & his Six Wives, starring Keith Mitchell, Donald Pleasance, and Charlotte Rampling; it
