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Maurizio Pollini’s main qualities as an artist are neither humor nor abundance of keyboard color. Now, these happen to be among the requisites necessary to
Here is a perfect example of modern classical music production at its most vulgar. It’s also a symptom of one of today’s more disturbing marketing
You know there’s something wrong with a recording of Mahler’s 3rd Symphony when its high point is the coda of the third movement Scherzo. RCA’s
Kaikhosru Sorabji’s Opus Clavicembalisicum is arguably the longest non-repetitive piano composition ever published. Modeled on Busoni’s Fantasia Contrappuntistica, OC’s structure encompasses, among other things, two
Until the invention of the phonograph, the only way you could hear orchestral music at home was to play it at the piano, usually in
The Japanese baritone Hidenori Komatsu may be an Ozawa protégé but he has very little to offer avid Mahlerians–or to just plain music lovers. His
Recorded in l960, this CD exhibited the (then) young American soprano, Anna Moffo, at her most enchanting. The voice was a pure lyric with a
In 1950 Hermann Scherchen recorded several Mahler symphonies with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in the ORF studios for broadcast purposes. Collectors familiar with the conductor’s
Mahler and Purcell: what an odd coupling. Sir John Barbirolli conducts both composers with mixed results. His own heavy-handed arrangement for strings, woodwinds, and horns
The first disc juxtaposes Vladimir Horowitz’s early Chopin Mazurkas and Etudes with later versions, some of which are remakes. By and large the ravishing cantabiles
