
In these days, when everyone is recording endless versions of […]
Ah, yes–if you are old enough, as I am, to remember when there was no “authentic performance movement” (and you don’t really have to be
Audite’s series of Rafael Kubelik’s live broadcasts from his tenure in Munich goes from strength to strength. Latest is this superb 1978 Brahms Requiem, bathed
This is an exciting live performance of this opera, recorded in Salzburg in 1969 when all of the principals were in their primes. Karl Böhm
This 1977 recording of the Mahler First made for an auspicious beginning to Klaus Tennstedt’s generally fine complete symphony cycle. Now, as then, what immediately
This Kubelik Mahler Two is the latest in Audite’s series of live Bavarian Radio broadcast concerts. As an interpretation it shares many of the virtues
Klaus Tennstedt’s EMI Mahler symphony cycle, made during the late 1970s and early ’80s, was the hugely successful project that originally brought this humble and
It’s nice to have this 1975 recording back in the catalog: Ozawa’s way with the score is beautiful and thoughtful, and he deals with Faust’s
This rather boring, slightly cut recording of Haydn’s perennially fresh oratorio The Seasons was highly regarded in its day (the mid-1960s), when competition was sparse.