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This highly entertaining Eloquence release returns to the catalog Dohnányi’s Variations on a Nursery Song in a blazing performance by András Schiff with Georg Solti
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
I disliked Solti’s recordings of Haydn’s London Symphonies when they were first issued as a decade-long project between 1981 and 1991, but now I’m feeling
Fans of Annie Fischer will want this disc for her elegant interpretation of Bartók’s Third Concerto. Despite the wooden tone of her piano, and the
Mischa Elman’s style personified Russian Romanticism in its liberal rubato, arched phrasings, pronounced string portamento, and heart-on-sleeve sentiment. However, it was eclipsed when the violinist’s
The performances gathered into this budget-priced box are all very well known, but almost all of them would grace any Elgar collection. The exceptions are
I seem to recall that this was a joyless, tough-love performance of this opera, but lo, almost 30 years later it seems to wear somewhat
This recent volume in the Philips Duo 20th Century Classics series focuses on the violin concertos of the 1900s, specifically works by Shostakovich, Bartok, Elgar,
Whoever said “an aristocrat never hurries” might well have referred to Jorge Bolet’s Liszt recordings for Decca, now conveniently gathered together in a space-saving, budget-priced
Gerhard Taschner premiered Wolfgang Fortner’s (1907-87) Violin Concerto in 1947. Composed very much in the style of the times, it makes liberal use of neoclassicism
