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This 7-disc Original Masters compilation restores the solo and concerto material included in Philips’ 1995 12-CD edition of Clara Haskil’s complete recordings for the label.
This disc contains most of the music from Bernhard Paumgartner’s Mozart Matinee Salzburg Festival concert of August 4, 1957. Despite the Camerata Academica Salzburg’s emaciated
The back cover reads that these performances are “issued from the original source” in “best possible sound remastered with 24-bit.” Translate that into reality and
It’s a bit difficult to try to figure out exactly whom this collection of Beethoven concerto performances best serves. Let’s leave aside the issue of
Arthur Grumiaux’s Mozart performances glowed, but his interpretations were always free of artifice and affectation, making his survey of the five violin concertos (it’s seldom
Can these recordings really be 50 years old? They hardly sound their age. Even card-carrying audiophiles will be impressed with the Mozart Concerto’s ideal orchestra/piano
Formerly known as Philips 432 829-2, this marvelous disc contains three outstanding performances: Markevitch’s El Amour Brujo, his dazzling Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Today’s personality-cult pianists could, if they chose, learn a tremendous amount from these performances. Clara Haskil’s 1960 Paris recordings of Mozart’s two minor-key piano concertos,
Clara Haskil’s 1953 Ludwigsburger Schloss recital has surfaced before on LP and CD. This transfer stems from original radio tape and sounds a little clearer
Clara Haskil’s Salzburg recital from August 8, 1957, is familiar from the pianist’s Philips studio versions–but these live traversals are preferable. Haskil’s sonority, for one,
