This release really is the "essential" Stravinsky in the sense that every major piece of his entire oeuvre is represented here and in chronological order. You get a picture of his compositional style and how it changed over the course of his career. It ends with a bonus track, an animated recollection by Stravinsky of the writing and premiere of ...
This is a quickie reissue of some of Leonard Bernstein's 1960s recordings of his own work. It has no liner notes whatsoever, and the title "America's Maestro" seems rather slapdash -- although Bernstein is conducing these performances, the focus is really on his music rather than his celebrated role as conductor of the New York Philharmonic. ...
John Barbirolli left the New York Philharmonic at the end of the 1942 season. He left because he couldn't stand the music critics whose writings he found at best cool and at worst cruel, because he couldn't stand Arturo Toscanini, whose personality he found at best crude and at worst cruel, because he was heartsick with worry over his family in ...
For those listeners for whom the idea of listening to Debussy's La Mer three times in a row seems like an appealing proposition, this magnificent set of Debussy's orchestral music recorded in the first half of the last century will be just the thing. For those listeners, the opportunity to hear first Pietro Coppola with the Orchestre de la Société ...
This nine-CD box was a lot more attractive when it first showed up in 1999, before Sony Music introduced its Direct Stream Digital mastering and super-audio CDs -- it's not quite the state-of-the-art reissue that it seemed then, as the state-of-the-art has been advancing ever-faster, but it's still an alluring package. The concept behind the ...
How much do you like Leonard Bernstein? Carnegie Hall is betting you like him a lot as it has collaborated with Sony to prepare this 10-CD set, The Original Jacket Collection: Bernstein Conducts Bernstein. It contains every album Bernstein made of his own music for CBS Records, beginning with his 1950 recording of the Symphony No. 2, "The Age of ...
Two of the three performances on this disc are the cornerstones of any representative Bartók collection because they feature the composer himself at the piano. In addition to being one of the preeminent modernist composers, Bartók was a virtuoso pianist, and thus he could articulate his own knotty and gnarly music. No matter how angular the ...
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