Martha Argerich’s live 1982 Rachmaninov Third Concerto was one of […]
To hear Leonidas Kavakos play the Brahms Violin Concerto is to be newly apprised of the work’s reputed difficulties. Not that Kavakos struggles with the
There are some interesting bonuses in this three-disc set: an
This 1985 Seventh, the first release in Riccardo Chailly’s 15
Along with Wit’s Naxos recording, this is one of the
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the premiere of Stravinsky’s Rite
There is one truly interesting work on this disc from a collector’s standpoint: Victor de Sabata’s suite from the ballet Mille e una notte (A
[Update: Essentially there are three recordings of the Ninth that
A set like this reveals tellingly the beneficial side of the period-performance movement. There are things that Riccardo Chailly does that likely never would have
This CD, coming so quickly on the heels of the one by Rolando Villazon, bodes well for tenorizing in the next couple of decades. Tenor