
While this 20-disc set doesn’t quite comprise William Steinberg’s “complete” EMI recordings (among the missing are Tchaikovsky’s Fifth symphony and William Schuman’s Symphony for Strings),
Pierre Monteux is commonly associated with Ravel and Stravinsky, and he won his initial acclaim by conducting the premieres of some of their seminal compositions.
Believe it or not, young people, there was a time when even ordinary folks in places like Cincinnati or Dayton or Toledo could hear great
If you’re a Nathan Milstein fan (and how can you not be), you probably either own or are aware of Disc 1’s contents by way
An album of this sort seems as much concocted to present a portrait of the artist as to offer interpretations of the music–and there’s no