September 2009
Tchaikovsky String Quartets by St Lawrence Quartet
Tchaikovsky: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 3 St Lawrence String Quartet EMI Classics CDC5 57144 [69:42] The…
Stokowski 1947 RCA Sessions – Virtuosity Without Vision
Stokowski’s 1947 Testament: Virtuosity in Search of Vision The story of Stokowski’s wandering years after Philadelphia—and there…
Sullivan: The Golden Legend – Rediscovered Victorian Masterpiece
Sullivan’s Golden Legend: Warming the Spirit What gives Sullivan his peculiar power to touch us? Not cleverness—heaven…
Strauss Ariadne auf Naxos – Sinopoli Dresden
# Sinopoli’s Valedictory Ariadne: evidence of Textural Clarity One hesitates to call any disc a “last testament“—the…
Mengelberg Strauss – Wartime Concertgebouw Recordings
Mengelberg’s Strauss: The Autocrat at Full Throttle These recordings—Ein Heldenleben from 1941, Tod und Verklärung from the…
Smetana Bartered Bride – Historic 1933 Prague Recording
Smetana: The Bartered Bride** Otakar Oštrcil conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of the National Opera Company of…
Skalkottas Chamber Works – New Hellenic Quartet
Skalkottas: Chamber Works The New Hellenic Quartet, with Jan Bengtson (flute), Per Huderson (oboe), Per Billman (clarinet),…