
These recordings first appeared in the late 1980s with little fanfare at full price. Now they’re back in print with little fanfare at budget price.
Christian Zacharias has been playing and recording Scarlatti for his entire career, and you want to love him for it, but he doesn’t always make
Although EMI has two “superstar” Beethoven Triple Concerto recordings to its credit (Oistrakh/Rostropovich/Richter and Perlman/Ma/Barenboim), I don’t necessarily prefer them to the label’s less-celebrated (and
Recorded in the late 1980s, Christian Zacharias’ Beethoven concerto cycle for EMI was irregularly available in the U.S. as a special import. Here, the Fourth
Christian Zacharias’ suave keyboard mastery throughout these much-loved Mozart concertos mirrors the composer’s famous comment to the effect that the phrasing should “flow like oil”.
There is a considered logic behind this program of symphony, piano concerto, and aria: all three works come from December, 1786, the end of a
Christian Zacharias recorded all the Mozart piano sonatas for EMI. The hit and miss quality of that undertaking extends as well to his first solo