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Big Boxes: Finally, Stravinsky’s Complete Columbia & RCA Recordings, The Right Way

Jed Distler

This release brings together all of the Columbia Masterworks and […]

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Pointless: Boring Stravinsky Monochrome And In Color

David Hurwitz

This is a vanity project, plain and simple. The person

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Big Boxes: Bernstein Conducts Stravinsky–and How!!

David Hurwitz

The Bottom Line: Bernstein was an incomparably great Stravinsky interpreter,

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CD From Hell: Sokolov’s Bogus Profundity In Mozart and Rachmaninov

David Hurwitz

Put this release squarely into the “naked emperor” category. Scrounging

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Reference Recording: Kocsis in Rachmaninov’s Concertos and Paganini Rhapsody

David Hurwitz

The recent death of Zoltán Kocsis represents a major loss

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Reference Recording: Thibaudet Plays Satie, Complete

David Hurwitz

It had been a long time since anyone recorded the

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Filling In The Gaps: Wagner’s Patriotic Potboilers

David Hurwitz

For the Wagnerite who wants everything the Meister wrote, this

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Karg-Elert’s Pleasantly Arcane Piano/Harmonium Wagner Arrangements

Jed Distler

The idea of Wagner opera excerpts arranged for piano and

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Siegfried Wagner: Sonnenflammen, Sound and Fury Signifying…?

Robert Levine

Here is yet another of Siegfried Wagner’s 14 operas, the

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Historical Gems: Unusual Wagner from Toscanini

David Hurwitz

This disc contains some novelties that Toscanini collectors will surely

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Very Good Dvorák Eighth, Amazing Golden Spinning Wheel

David Hurwitz September 7, 2025

Dvorák: Tone Poems Ably Presented by Theodor Kuchar

David Hurwitz September 7, 2025

Dvorak: Dimitrij

Robert Levine September 7, 2025

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