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Quasi-Magnifique Messiaen Box from DG

David Hurwitz

If you want all of Messiaen’s orchestral and vocal-orchestral music […]

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CD From Hell: The Wreckage of Abbado’s Tchaikovsky

David Hurwitz

Stop the madness! The major labels whine that classical music

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Reference Recording: Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito

Robert Levine

Allowing for the fact that for 100 years or more

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Reference Recording: Fleisher and Szell Brahms Piano Concertos

Victor Carr Jr

The terms “classic” and “definitive”, so overused that they are

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CD From Hell: Tavener’s The World and Other Atrocities

David Vernier

The music on this new release of John Tavener works

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Angeles Quartet’s Complete Haydn Reissued on Decca

David Hurwitz

I’m in a bit of a fix. When this 21-CD

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Reference Recording: Martinon’s Roussel Symphony No. 2 and Spider’s Feast

David Hurwitz

On his return to France in the late 1960s after

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CD From Hell: Boulez Explosante Dreck

David Hurwitz

Ah, the delicious irony of it all! Here we have

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Reference Recording: Arrau’s Liszt Sonata

Jed Distler

Claudio Arrau’s 1970 Philips recording of Liszt’s B minor Sonata,

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CD From Hell: Dvorak New World on Organ

David Hurwitz

This is just sick. Dvorák’s last symphony sounds like garbage

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Quartet For Two

David Vernier June 14, 2021

Swan Hennessy’s Obscure Yet Worthy Piano Music

Jed Distler June 9, 2021

Dausgaard’s Aptly Vicious Mandarin, Well Coupled

David Hurwitz June 7, 2021

Benjamin Bernheim Rules as Met’s Hoffmann
by Robert Levine
October 6, 2024
Benjamin Bernheim Rules as Met’s Hoffmann Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, NY; Oct 24, 2024 Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann is a nasty work. Despite its
RIP David Vernier, Editor-in-Chief
by David Hurwitz
August 4, 2024
David Vernier, ClassicsToday.com’s founding Editor-in-Chief passed away Thursday morning, August 1, 2024 after a long battle with cancer. The end came shockingly quickly. Just a
Finally, It’s SIR John
by ClassicsToday
June 24, 2024
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