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Simon Gibson’s remastering of this famous 1953 Salzburg Festival Wolf recital is less strident on top than the excellent-quality Fonit Cetra LPs released in the
The chief concern here for collectors is how EMI’s latest remasterings of its Furwängler Beethoven cycle compare to previous ones. Symphonies One, Three, Four, Five,
There’s little anyone can add to nearly 50 years worth of praise and awe-inspired reverence for Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Edwin Fischer’s 1952 Schubert song recital.
Disky’s budget Royal Long Players series normally touts back burner stuff–outdated performances of questionable artistic merit–but if you’re after ‘Grieg’s Greatest Hits’ and not troubled
What is more important, words or music? That’s essentially the plot of Richard Strauss’ operatic swan song, for which Clemens Krauss fashioned a mildly droll
Your reaction to this famous recording depends on whether you find the cutesy-pooh antics of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau charming or sickening. Certainly, there’s
In essence, EMI’s 20-bit remastering of Karl Böhm’s 1962 Così fan tutte fortifies the lower strings, winds, and timpani, while sharpening note attacks and word
The subtitle, “The Unpublished EMI Recordings 1955-1958”, stirs both apprehension and anticipation. Apprehension, because the immediate question that comes to mind is “why were they
This is a real rarity, and despite the fact that the score is presented with no recitatives and there are a couple of other minor
In 1998, as part of its Klemperer Edition, EMI released a marvelous live recording of the Mahler Second Symphony featuring the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
