In reissuing its vintage stereo recordings, RCA either reproduces the original albums as they were released on LP, or combines several recordings into much fuller programs. Fortunately, the second option pertains to this SACD of Jascha Heifetz's masterful performances of violin concertos by Sibelius, Prokofiev, and Glazunov; listeners get well ...
No one would deny the beauties of these performances, but no one would assert that these are much more than beautiful performances. Recorded between 1964 and 1982, these are some of the most ravishingly beautiful performances of orchestral favorites by Grieg and Sibelius ever preserved on disc. The splendors of the Berlin Philharmonic are ...
As a Time-Life collection, this two-disc set of Classical Thunder -- big orchestral warhorses that will rattle your rafters if you've got the right gear -- is a little odd. It used to be that Time-Life stood for good, informative documentation that would let you learn something about the music you were listening to, whether pop or classical. In ...
EMI's Classical Destinations: An Armchair Guide to Classical Music is a double-disc compilation that guides listeners to great works in a simple travelogue format. But beyond its appealing musical examples, there is little to be learned of locales from this package, and perhaps even less to be gleaned about the significance of nationalism in the ...
Kyung-Wha Chung was 22 years old when she recorded these two heavyweight concerti in Kingsway Hall with the London Symphony under André Previn. It was Chung's debut recording session, held in the wake of her unexpected success in London as a last-minute replacement for Itzhak Perlman. Although the orchestra was not impressed that it was being ...
On her album American Virtuosa: Tribute to Maud Powell, violinist Rachel Barton Pine pays wonderful homage to one of the greatest American violinists most listeners have likely never heard of. Maud Powell was a pioneer in almost every way imaginable, perhaps most notably because she was one of the first performers to attempt to bring classical ...
A generous double disc of Sibelius' most celebrated tone poems and less familiar works, this 2004 EMI Classics compilation is recommended as a fine alternative to skimpier greatest-hits packages. Yes, Finlandia is here, along with the popular Swan of Tuonela, Pohjola's Daughter, and the Karelia Suite, and Sir Malcolm Sargent's outstanding ...
While there are those who would agree along with the Boston Herald that "when arguments about the greatest living quartet begin, one choice remains non-controversial: the Emerson Quartet," there are those who might amend their assertion to read "the greatest living American quartet. Because while it might be persuasively asserted that there are ...
This EMI disc of Sibelius symphonies by Herbert von Karajan leading the Berliner Philharmoniker couples a 1981 performance of the First, a work Karajan had never recorded before, with a 1980 performance of the Sixth, a work Karajan had recorded twice before, once in 1956 with the London's Philharmonia for EMI and then again in 1967 with the Berlin ...
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