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Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Symphony No. 3
Svjatoslav Richter (piano)
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Yevgeny Mravinsky
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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…
Awards:
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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Saint-Saëns: Concertos
Emil Gilels (piano), Isaac Stern (violin), Msistlav Rostropovitch (cello), Arthur Grumiaux (violin)
Societe des concerts du Conservatoire de Paris, Philadelphia Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Concerts Lamoureux, André Clutyens, Eugene Ormandy, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Jean Fournet
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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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Liszt: Symphonic Poems Vol. 1
RIAS Sinfonie Orchester, Berlin, Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, Sinfonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Ferenc Fricsay, Stanislav Macura, Herbert von Karajan, Rafael Kubelik
[a] stellar collection of Lizst performances — More…
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Furtwangler conducts Romantic Poems and Viennese Dances
Wiener Philharmoniker, Berliner Philharmoniker, Wilhelm Furtwangler
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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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Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Yevgeny Mravinsky & Ilya Shpilberg
This is Mravinsky at his peak. The playing of the Leningrad Philharmonic in these three twentieth century works is quite astonishingly good. — More…
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Goldmark & Brahms: Violin Concertos
Nathan Milstein (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Harry Blech & Anatole Fistoulari
Intense performances, although the Brahms catches fire only when Milstein appears. He makes the Goldmark seem a more substantial work than it is. — More…
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Šejna injects much freshness into this very attractive coupling. The Czech Philharmonic’s distinctive timbres are evident even through the recording’s compressed dynamic levels. — More…
