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This collection, enriched here by excellent recordings of La Mer and España taken from other releases, shows Ernest Ansermet at his best. The performances always
There’s plenty of color and sparkle in Georg Solti’s Gaité Parisienne, leading as he does with his characteristic energy and consummate sense of style. The
This Eloquence disc conveniently gathers all five of César Franck’s tone poems, which, along with his Symphony in C, constitute the bulk of his orchestral
Available internationally for the first time on CD, Lorin Maazel’s Tchaikovsky Third Suite always has been one of his finest recordings with the Vienna Philharmonic.
Canadian cellist Zara Nelsova (her parents were Russian emigres) was known in the 1950s as the “Queen of the Cello”. This disc of 1953 and
Aram Khachaturian recorded selections from his two famous ballets several times for various labels, but this Decca selection of excerpts has long enjoyed particular affection,
This reissue of Ernest Ansermet treasures from the early 1950s is split more or less evenly between Debussy and Dukas, with Saint-Saëns’ popular Danse macabre
Most collectors, I suspect, will want to know how Julius Katchen’s 1953 mono versions of the Prokofiev and Bartók Third Concertos compare to his better
Giulini’s Los Angeles La Mer has had a spotty history on disc yet it remains his finest account of the score, a bit measured in
There’s something about this performance that’s different from any other: People endlessly discuss how Debussy aurally evokes lightness and darkness, but whether it’s the acoustic
