Originally released in 1966, Bernard Haitink's vivid recording of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 3 in D minor is coupled here with a 1973 performance of Das klagende Lied; since these are among the least performed and least familiar works in Mahler's catalog, the pairing is mutually beneficial to each, and listeners who have neither in their ...
Nicholas Maw (born 1935) was one of the leading voices in British composition to emerge around the middle of the twentieth century, and "Scenes and Arias" (1962) was the work that established his reputation. Maw's text is an anonymous love poem written around 1300, whose alternation of lines in French, English, and Latin is wonderfully charming ...
A mix of rare and random performances of Mozart's sacred music from Deutsche Grammophon's back catalog, this disc will be sought out by some and passed over by others. Listeners looking for Rafael Kubelik's light and lyrical 1973 recordings of the "Sparrow" Mass and "Coronation" Mass or for Ferenc Fricsay and Maria Stader's bright and brilliant ...
This is what one lives for: one lucid moment of absolute understanding. Jascha Horenstein's recording from February 23, 1961, is what one lives for: one of the two of three greatest performances of one of the two or three greatest sacred choral works ever recorded. If Jascha Horenstein is not one of the great names in twentieth century conducting, ...
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