Welcome to the new ClassicsToday.com!
Eschenbach; Christoph
-
Singular Voice, Exemplary Brahms
In sports there are awards for MVP or best player in this or that position, or there are world rankings to confirm greater or lesser…
-
Christoph Eschenbach: The Early Recordings
This reissue brings together just about all of Christoph Eschenbach’s solo piano recordings for Deutsche Grammophon, with the notable exception of his Mozart sonata cycle…
-
Mahler: Symphony No. 6; Piano Quartet SACD
The Philadelphia Orchestra’s first two releases for Ondine under Christoph Eschenbach (Bartók and Tchaikovsky) were extremely good, no doubt about it, but this Mahler Sixth…
-
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6/ Dumka/Eschenbach SACD
After a very good Tchaikovsky Fifth symphony and a so-so Fourth, Christoph Eschenbach and the Philadelphia Orchestra have hit a home run with the Pathétique.…
-
Intelligent, Artful Schubert
Harmonia Mundi now owns the two best Die schöne Müllerin recordings currently available–a tenor version by Werner Güra and Jan Schultsz from 1999 (see reviews…
-
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5/Eschenbach SACD
Christoph Eschenbach usually does pain and angst particularly well, so you would think that Shostakovich would be right up his alley. Not so. Yes, he…
-
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5; Seasons/Eschenbach
The Philadelphia Orchestra’s rich tradition of Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 recordings continues in this handsome new release from Ondine. The SACD sonics are so clear…
-
Mozart piano concertos 21 & 27. Eschenbach
It’s easy to forget these days that Christoph Eschenbach first made his mark as a pianist, and a good one at that. On this Unesco…
-
Erlkönig–The Art of the Lied
This is a nearly ideal compilation of some of the finest art songs of all time, sung by three of the greatest lieder singers ever…
