Big Boxes

Big Boxes: Richter’s Schubert From Profil

Jed Distler

Profil’s boxed set purportedly devoted to Sviatoslav Richter’s Schubert “live […]

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Sony’s Beethoven Box: A Legend In Its Own Mind, Maybe

David Hurwitz

You know that when a major label calls a box

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The Miró Quartet’s Beethoven Cycle: A Major Accomplishment

Jed Distler

The Miró Quartet recorded Beethoven’s six Op. 18 string quartets

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Great Schubert from the Geister Duo

Jed Distler

No composer wrote so extensively and rewardingly for the piano

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CD Partially From Hell: Backhaus’ Second-Best Beethoven

Jed Distler

Wilhelm Backhaus recorded Beethoven’s complete piano sonatas in mono for

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Saint-Saens: A Box of Symphonies & Concertos

David Hurwitz

It’s puzzling that Brilliant Classics was unable to get any

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Debussy: The (Really) Complete Works on Warner

David Hurwitz

Unlike DG’s recent incomplete Complete Works box, this one, all

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DG’s Incomplete, Grab Bag of a Complete Debussy Box

David Hurwitz

In mathematics it is possible to accept the notion that

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Bernstein’s Sony Mahler Box Re-Boxed and Re-Coupled

David Hurwitz

First, let’s understand why this reissue is a typical example

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Big Boxes: Abbado’s Frustrating Mahler

David Hurwitz

Abbado’s best Mahler recordings were his earliest, made in Chicago,

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Handel’s Sumptuous Organ Banquet

Jed Distler February 1, 2026

Stupendous Handel From Franco Fagioli

Robert Levine February 1, 2026

Haydn and Mozart by Handel and Haydn

David Hurwitz February 1, 2026

Benjamin Bernheim Rules as Met’s Hoffmann
by Robert Levine
October 6, 2024
Benjamin Bernheim Rules as Met’s Hoffmann Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, NY; Oct 24, 2024 Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann is a nasty work. Despite its
RIP David Vernier, Editor-in-Chief
by David Hurwitz
August 4, 2024
David Vernier, ClassicsToday.com’s founding Editor-in-Chief passed away Thursday morning, August 1, 2024 after a long battle with cancer. The end came shockingly quickly. Just a
Finally, It’s SIR John
by ClassicsToday
June 24, 2024
He’d received many honors before, but it wasn’t until last week that John Rutter, best known for his choral compositions and arrangements, especially works related