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In concert, Karl Böhm could be a terrifically exciting conductor, and this certainly was one of those occasions. You might think that the Beethoven concerto
Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra gave the American premiere of Shostakovich’s valedictory symphony in 1972, followed by its first recording outside the Soviet Union.
Orfeo has corralled a collection of Mozart sonata performances from the Salzburg Festival archives that features pianists approaching Mozart on diverse, often antipodal, and sometimes
This disc duplicates Testament SBT 1029, save for the addition of an extra Shostakovich Prelude and Fugue (No. 24) for filler’s sake. Collectors who missed
Although Testament’s 1997 transfers of these 1957 Beethoven recordings markedly improved upon their best-sounding LP incarnations, EMI’s newer Great Recordings of the Century remasterings boast
Had I been a Gramophone critic in 1984, I’m not sure I would have cast my Instrumental Award ballot that year in favor of Emil
Emil Gilels is on fine form in these live performances taped December 24-27, 1977 (sonic differences lead me to suspect that the Rachmaninov and Brahms
The cover photo’s resemblance to Bela Lugosi as Dracula aside, the fact that Fritz Reiner was a great conductor is evident from the first notes
Astute pianophiles may recognize some of the live performances gathered here from earlier CD incarnations on (among others) the Russian Revelation and Yedang labels. On
The Gilels/Ormandy Chopin E minor concerto mainly impresses for its surface sheen. As a Chopinist, Gilels was not the colorist and tone poet Arthur Rubinstein
