"Believing that the performer's role was properly creative," writes Gould biographer Kevin Bazzana, "he offered original, deeply personal, sometimes shocking interpretations (extreme tempos, odd ... (Read More)
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David Hickman, cornet. Mark H. Lawrence, trombone. American Serenade Band. Henry Charles Smith, conductor.
Label: Summit. Format: cutout CD.
Label Number: 121. Daedalus Item Code: 27682
Time was, every self-respecting township had a band gazebo in the municipal park so that marches, airs, and popular dance tunes could waft out over a summer evening. Those days come to life again ... (Read More)
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Sena Jurinac, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Rolando Panerai & others. Philharmonia Orchestra. Herbert von Karajan, conductor, & others.
Label: Urania. Format: 2 CDs.
Label Number: 22266. Daedalus Item Code: 27165
Sung in Italian, this mid-1950s live recording of Humperdinck's enrapturing children's opera features Sena Jurinac as Hansel and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf as Gretel (a part she recapitulated in the ... (Read More)
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Earl Wild, Ruth Slenczynska & David Korevaar, pianos. Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Massimo Freccia, conductor, & others.
Label: Ivory Classics. Format: CD.
Label Number: 72010. Daedalus Item Code: 37056
Now here's some ivory purveying we can really get behind. All new to CD, the program includes two major Earl Wild performances: Turina's Rapsodia sinfonica with Massimo Freccia and the Royal ... (Read More)
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Joshua Pierce, piano. Slovak State Chamber Orchestra Zilina. Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra of Bratislava. Kirk Trevor, conductor.
Label: Kleos Classics. Format: CD.
Label Number: 5137. Daedalus Item Code: 27487
Folk music, jazz, and tango disport in Darius Milhaud's popular Le carnaval d'Aix, a "fantasy for piano and orchestra" of 1926. Benjamin Britten's Young Apollo for piano and string ... (Read More)
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Rudolf Fischer, oboe. Harald Feller, organ. Mozart Festival Orchestra. Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Dragomir Divisek, conductor, & others.
Label: Tandem Verlag Audio. Format: 12 CDs, boxed.
Label Number: 29057689. Daedalus Item Code: 22176
From the early Classical to the late Romantic period, this ample set hits many high points of European and Russian music. Works include the "Emperor" Quartet by Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus ... (Read More)
Helmut Wittek, soprano. Concertgebouworkest Amsterdam. Leonard Bernstein, conductor.
Label: Deutsche Grammophon. Format: cutout CD.
Label Number: 423607. Daedalus Item Code: 18045
Mahler's most accessible symphony opens with a first movement that recreates an Old World Bohemian landscape, "a ray of light upon the meadow" in the composer's words. The entire symphony is built ... (Read More)
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Speaking of a particularly challenging piece he was about to play on her birthday, a WQXR announcer once mused, "Martha Augerich eats music like this for breakfast." These 2002–2010 performances were ... (Read More)
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Jack Brymer, who shared Mozart's birthday, recorded all of his clarinet works, including three versions of the Concerto K. 622—"all of the highest distinction," as Gramophone writes. ... (Read More)
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Kremer and Harnoncourt take a fresh—and perhaps even provocative— approach to the last three of Mozart’s concertos for violin. In the third and fourth, the Penguin Guide found a combination of ... (Read More)
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