These SACD multichannel remasterings sound amazingly fine and true to life, so much so that the standard stereo issues don't even begin to compare. The Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony is a very good performance, though Edo de Waart improved on it sti…
"The program, recorded in 1966, includes some of the best performances available in the popular Russian repertoire. Solti was at the top of his form in the rousing opening number, Mikhail Glinka's Russlan and Ludmila overture, as stirring a…
No work of Mussorgsky’s – even Mussorgsky’s – has a more tangled history than St John’s Night on the Bare Mountain, and the complexities are reflected in its recordings. A long and tortuous story must be cut short. In 1860, Mussorgsky told Balakirev…
With scintillating virtuosity in Pictures and Abbado bringing out the Russian color in the gloriously sung choral works, there is nothing routine about anything here. Abbado has recorded all this music before, but the new live DG recording is even m…