
This reissue completes The Yale Quartet’s late-1960s/early-1970s recordings of Beethoven’s late quartets. Yielding little to other noted Beethoven cycles that appeared at the time–from groups
With this reissue Vanguard Classics embarks on what I hope will be a full-scale survey of Bruce Hungerford’s Beethoven recordings. Between 1965 and 1977 (when
Joseph Szigeti was in his early 60s when he recorded Bach’s solo sonatas and partitas in 1955/56 for the Bach Guild. Though past his technical
These lively, heartfelt performances by Antonio Janigro and I Solisti di Zagreb certainly have withstood the test of time. From the onset, in Concerto No.
Good as it is to have these long-out-of-print performances reissued for the first time, Vanguard does their potential audience a major disservice by including no
Alfred Brendel has been making records since the early 1950s, when as a twenty-something he recorded the Prokofiev Fifth Piano Concerto for Vox, then moving
The Yale Quartet’s late-1960s/early-1970s recordings of Beethoven’s late quartets stood proudly among the era’s reference versions for these compositions, yielding little if anything to contemporaneous
Alfred Brendel’s recording sessions for the Vanguard label in the 1960s produced one concerto coupling, and, boy, is it a beauty! We have two of
Netanya Davrath’s Songs of the Auvergne has stood as the reference recording in this music since the mid-1960s when it was first issued, and while
If you have any sort of American Music section as part of your CD collection, consider this a “must have” disc. On it you will