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Debussy: Orch works/Giulini

David Hurwitz

Giulini’s Los Angeles La Mer has had a spotty history on disc yet it remains his finest account of the score, a bit measured in

Beethoven: Symphonies 5 & 7/Ashkenazy

Victor Carr Jr

When Vladimir Ashkenazy recorded Beethoven’s Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh symphonies in the early 1980s his conducting career was relatively new, as was the digital recording

Glazunov’s Heartfelt, “Impossible to Ignore” Suite Charactéristique

David Hurwitz August 24, 2025

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Reference Recording: Milstein Plays Dvorák and Glazunov

David Hurwitz August 24, 2025

Naxos’ Scarlatti Cycle Reaches the Bottom of the Barrel

Jed Distler August 17, 2025

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by Robert Levine
October 6, 2024
Benjamin Bernheim Rules as Met’s Hoffmann Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, NY; Oct 24, 2024 Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann is a nasty work. Despite its
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He’d received many honors before, but it wasn’t until last week that John Rutter, best known for his choral compositions and arrangements, especially works related

Universal Classics

Debussy: Orch works/Giulini

Beethoven: Symphonies 5 & 7/Ashkenazy

Glazunov’s Heartfelt, “Impossible to Ignore” Suite Charactéristique

Reference Recording: Milstein Plays Dvorák and Glazunov

Naxos’ Scarlatti Cycle Reaches the Bottom of the Barrel

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