Classical Reviews/Orchestral

21 interviews, and over 475 reviews of classical CDs, SACDs, DVDs, Blu-rays, and downloads in this 640-page issue!

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Arturo Toscanini is largely remembered for his vast catalog of recordings made in the later part of his career for RCA, with an ensemble specifically created...

Having not been a fan of zarzuela music until the early 1970s, I had never heard or heard of Ataúlfo Argenta before, though he recorded this...


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I wanted to hear Hännsler’s Carl Schuricht Collection because I consider his 1939 Concertgebouw performance of Das Lied von der Erde to be the greatest ever...

The liner note for this disc, written by Bryce Morrison, clearly draws a line in the sand and dares the listener to cross it. His very...

Here are 11 discs of music outside of the British repertoire usually associated with Adrian Boult: repertoire which EMI was disinclined to record as the conductor...

This has to be one of the strangest discs ever to come to me for review, but I’m the one who ordered it because it just...


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Two confessions upfront: First, when I saw this release advertised, I had to have it, and for only one reason. As many readers probably know by...

The American conductor Theodore Kuchar is familiar from his Naxos recordings with the Ukraine SO: These include a complete Prokofiev series and early releases in the...