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Have you noticed how recent boxed sets devoted to a […]
This 1955 recording seems as if it should be introduced with the words “Did you hear the one about Hermann Prey and Martha Modl singing
Captured in very good mono broadcast-quality sound, with an impressively
In my review of the Kegel recording on Berlin Classics
This five-CD set contains a relatively pale early 1970s recording
Claudio Abbado is one of the more enigmatic conductors still
Announcing the return of what we used to call “Orff Orph!” this is in reality Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, rescored, cut, and reorganized by Carl Orff for
Weinberger’s Schwanda used to be extremely popular, and even the formerly ubiquitous Polka and Fugue seems to have fallen out of favor. This is the
Releasing Bernard Haitink’s 1971 Mahler Eighth on SACD allows for appreciation of the original multi-channel recording, which does indeed enhance the spaciousness and clarity of
Lorin Maazel leads a rather slowish Brahms Requiem that emphasizes the work’s devotional characteristics. The relaxed tempos combined with an overall heaviness of texture makes
