

Imre Széchényi (1825-98) was a Hungarian diplomat and composer noted for his dance music–you know, sort of like Johann Strauss, Jr and that crowd. The

Universal Classics’ limited edition of Herbert von Karajan’s complete Deutsche

You wouldn’t think it was possible to make the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto sound tediously dull, but Olga Scheps and Carlos Dominguez-Nieto have managed to do

Decca’s latest big box compilation focuses on the British label’s

There are some very fine moments in this Mahler Fifth, surprisingly because conductor François-Xavier Roth is one of those guys who has been making “historically

As with his earlier release containing Prokofiev’s First, Third and Fourth Concertos, Olli Mustonen approaches the composer’s Second and Fifth with fresh eyes, ears and

Martinu’s A Bouquet of Flowers ought to be as popular

This terrific live performance offers the premiere recording of Martinu’s

Rachmaninov’s mini-cantata Spring tells of a husband intent on murdering his unfaithful wife, who then abandons his plans upon the arrival of spring. The melodically

I feel about this much as I did about Pretty Yende’s first CD, “A Journey”. Her “journey” from a teensy town in South Africa to
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