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“All’s not false that’s taught in the public schools,” Tovey […]
What’s not to like? Sure, a lot of Mozartean water has flowed under the bridge since Neville Marriner and his crack ensemble became “the standard”
Ravel’s music is, as we know, all “surface”, and few conductors and orchestras polish that surface to a finer sheen than Haitink and the Concertgebouw.
This Universal Classics release presents the novice collector with two of the world’s great concertos on one disc. Salvatore Accardo’s eminently enjoyable Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
This recording recently appeared in a Decca Trio collection of the complete Rachmaninov Piano Concertos (type Q6237 in Search Reviews), but it’s good to have
This is a nicely shaped, well proportioned, clearly argued but decidedly run-of-the-mill performance of Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony. Charles Dutoit provides what is generally expected: drama
As one of its chief virtues, Bernard Haitink’s 1970s Brahms symphony cycle exhibited the distinguished playing of the Concertgebouw Orchestra. Indeed, the orchestra sounds gorgeous
Rock star Sting turns out to be an exceptionally lucid storyteller, making his rendition of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf quite enthralling. His knack for
Lorin Maazel’s bright and brash performances of Rhapsody in Blue, Cuban Overture, and American in Paris demonstrate his special affinity for the music of George
Here’s your basic, no-nonsense Ninth. Kurt Masur’s moderate tempos and generally-accepted standards of phrasing and orchestral balance (the strings predominate) place this reading squarely in
