
Myra Hess (1890-1965) enjoyed a long and successful international concert […]
By the time of these 1951 Perpignan Festival recordings Pablo Casals was past his prime as a cellist but had not yet emerged as the
Among the 78 era’s Schumann Carnavals, Myra Hess’ 1938 HMV version does not match the galvanic force of Rachmaninov, the whimsy of Cortot, or Arrau’s
Myra Hess made surprisingly few commercial recordings for a pianist of her international stature. She hated the process and felt that only two or three
What an incredible Christmas Eve concert! On December 24th, 1946, at New York’s Rockefeller Center, Toscanini conducted Beethoven and Wagner with savage energy. In the