When Decca first issued Bernard Haitink's Shostakovich symphony cycle between 1977 and 1984, it was the first non-Soviet cycle of the works. When the cycle was re-released as a set in 2006, it was still only the third non-Soviet cycle -- Eliahu Inbal had completed a perfunctory cycle for Denon and Ladislav Slovak a lackluster cycle for Naxos in ...
The Mozart Requiem on this disc was recorded in London in 1967 and the Masonic Funeral Music that opens the program three years before that. What the buyer gets, therefore, is certainly big-orchestra Mozart, music that might have made the composer back up and blink a little bit. That said, this reading by conductor Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos and ...
If you believe that Beethoven was a conventional Austrian Catholic in his religious views, then Carlo Maria Giulini recordings of Beethoven's two settings of the ordinary of the Catholic mass, the Missa Solemnis and the Mass in C major, will seem ideal. Leading the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the New Philharmonia Chorus, and two distinctly ...
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