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Zoltàn Kocsis’ Essential Complete Philips Recordings (video review)

David Hurwitz

The Bottom Line: Just about everything Kocsis did is worth […]

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Ernest Ansermet’s 10 Best Recordings (Video Review)

David Hurwitz

Ernest Ansermet’s reputation exists in conjunction with the Orchestre de

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Big Boxes: Ansermet’s Rousing Russian Collection

David Hurwitz

For all the grotty playing and occasionally screechy sonics, there’s

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Big Boxes: Ansermet’s Endlessly Reissued Legacy, Reissued

David Hurwitz

We owe the huge number of Ansermet recordings to the

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Lorin Maazel’s Ten Best Recordings (Video Review)

David Hurwitz

Lorin Maazel made tons and tons of recordings featuring both

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Big Boxes: Rossini’s Complete Piano Music, Plus

Jed Distler

Although Rossini “officially” retired from writing operas in 1829 at

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Leonard Bernstein’s 10 Best Recordings (video review)

David Hurwitz

Selecting a “ten best” list for an artist like Leonard

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Georg Solti’s 10 Best Recordings (Video Review)

David Hurwitz

During the 1970s and 80s scarcely a month went by

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Robert Craft’s Mono Webern Cycle: Collectible Or Curio?

Jed Distler

In the years following his death in 1945, Anton Webern’s

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A Tale Of Two Scriabin Cycles

Jed Distler

Between 2009 and 2019 Dmitri Alexeev recorded all of Scriabin’s

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Segerstam’s Reger Makes It To A Box

David Hurwitz October 18, 2024

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Reference Recording: Pettersson’s Glorious, Scarifying 8th Symphony

David Hurwitz October 18, 2024

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Filling In The Gaps: Sibelius’ Strange Scaramouche

David Hurwitz October 18, 2024

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He’d received many honors before, but it wasn’t until last week that John Rutter, best known for his choral compositions and arrangements, especially works related