
Erik Satie’s reputation as a musical maverick and noncomformist (a hippie before his time, so to speak) struck a chord with music lovers in the
Looking for two large-scale vocal works about iconic visionary leaders condemned to death for stupid reasons (Socrates and Jesus), but minus the singing? Then consider
This Satie four-hand collection actually is more than complete. In addition to the composer’s own original works and transcriptions, the superb Dutch husband and wife
It had been a long time since anyone recorded the
Eugene Ormandy’s 78 RPM output with the Philadelphia Orchestra for RCA Victor may seem like a drop in the bucket compared to his immense Columbia
For the Wagnerite who wants everything the Meister wrote, this
The idea of Wagner opera excerpts arranged for piano and
Here is yet another of Siegfried Wagner’s 14 operas, the
This disc contains some novelties that Toscanini collectors will surely
Leonard Slatkin’s Tchaikovsky symphony cycle was, on the whole, good