Paul Paray’s Schumann performances are exactly what you would expect, coming from this source. They’re bright, clear, peppy, neat, and elegant, without a trace of
It took Rafael Kubelik a long time to “find himself”
Antal Dorati was such a constant presence in the world
The Bottom Line: They’re here! Eloquence has released Rafael Kubelik’s
Let’s get the one potential item on the debit side
There’s absolutely nothing to dislike about this album, assuming of
Paul Paray was not a conductor who happened to compose,
Lustrously recorded in Vienna in 1958, this disc of Respighi’s
Henryk Szeryng’s robust and resonant violin tone at times takes on a dark quality more like a viola–quite different from the bright sound of Heifetz.
This may be the most scintillating, exciting, sonically vibrant Nutcracker of them all, fully exploiting orchestral color and sectional timbres (especially the strings)–and whether you