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Twenty-five years after Alfred Deller’s death, Vanguard Classics is reminding us, with reissues such as this one, why the singer was one of the great
All of the performances here are reissued on CD for the first time and largely testify to the late Bruce Hungerford’s persuasive powers as a
Because these performances are relatively well known, I will limit myself to discussion of these new SACD incarnations. They are terrible. Abravanel’s Mahler recordings never
Nowhere does Vanguard Classics indicate that the Liszt performances gathered for this reissue respectively date from the early 1970s (Russell Sherman’s Transcendental Etudes, which first
Collectors who missed these 1967/69 recordings in earlier CD incarnations will be pleased to have a second chance at them–and for a proverbial song. Lili
It’s impossible today to listen to repertoire masterworks without filing–even unwillingly–through one’s mental catalogue of competing recordings and interpretations. Even the most cursory glance at
This one-of-a-kind piece for actors and chamber ensemble came about when Stravinsky was looking for a new work to follow Les Noces, and another ballet
Felix Prohaska’s Mozart performances are exemplars of the “old world” style, with comfortable tempos that nonetheless exhibit vibrant energy and warm, full sonorities (the barely
Like so many artists today, Gil Shaham finds himself at the top of his form but with no major label outlet for his talents. Happily
If you’re looking for Beethoven’s greatest hits as well as a healthy cross section of his early, middle, and late-period sonatas, you’ve come to the
