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Reference Recording: Ancerl’s Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms

David Hurwitz

No need to mince words here: this is the finest […]

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Reference Recording: Kubelik’s Bartók Concerto for Orchestra

David Hurwitz

Seiji Ozawa’s version of the Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin

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Rameau Suites Reissued by Tafelmusik

David Hurwitz

Tafelmusik got something of a bum rap from the classical

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Tafelmusik’s Haydn Paris Symphonies, Again

David Hurwitz

No sooner does Sony put all of Tafelmusik’s Haydn in

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Reference Recording: Klemperer’s Bruckner Sixth

David Hurwitz

First released in 1962, Otto Klemperer’s recording of Bruckner’s Sixth

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Tafelmusik Fireworks Fizzles

David Hurwitz

The real virtues of this recording lie in the excellent

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Colin Davis Sibelius Box on Penta…Phili…er…Decca!

David Hurwitz

Okay, finally, here is Colin Davis’ Sibelius from Boston, all

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A Timeless Four Seasons

David Vernier

It’s not as if we need another Vivaldi Four Seasons

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Brandenburgs for All

David Vernier

As with most of the Tafelmusik releases back in the

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Encore! Encore!

David Vernier

These things—meaning whole programs of so-called “encores”—are fundamentally pointless: after

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Dinara Klinton’s Unpressured And Musicianly Prokofiev Sonata Cycle

Jed Distler June 6, 2021

Véronique Bonnecaze’s Chopin Etudes

Jed Distler May 31, 2021

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Erich Kleiber’s Complete Polydor 78s: Mostly Good, Sometimes Awful

David Hurwitz May 31, 2021

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