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With the Vienna Philharmonic, the great conductor performs music not normally associated with him. Some elicit wonderful results (Gluck, Cherubini, and – with the Philharmonia and Fischer-Dieskau... — More…
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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Kathleen Ferrier: Brahms, Mahler, Gluck
Kathleen Ferrier (contralto)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Bruno Walter
The beloved English contralto is heard here in some of the core pieces from her repertory, her unflawed singing a testament to an outstanding artist at her best. — More…
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Here, it is the Fourth, in a performance of astonishing brilliance and grandeur, but also of darkness, of Shostakovich-like grimness and even, in the tone and attack of the woodwind, grotesqueness.... — More…
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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano)
Prague Symphony Orchestra (FOK), Vàclav Smetacek
Despite inferior sound, Michelangeli dazzles in the opening of Op. 111, is magisterial in the Emperor Concerto, and gives peerless performances of Debussy's Images. — More…
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Richter's piano is clangorous in Op. 90, yet every bar is filled with personality and ideas. He is reflective yet explosive in Op. 101, though there's some technical insecurity. — More…
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the slow movements [are] all played with yieldingly intense awareness of their delectably individual moments; and these musicians invite listeners to be drawn into the many facets of Haydn's... — More…
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