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Offer, Liszt: A Faust Symphony, S108
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Kenneth Riegel (tenor)
Tanglewood Festival Chorus & Boston Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein
Noble, passionate performance of Liszt's greatest work, Bernstein conducting with precision and fervour, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra ideal. Not much is added by seeing Bernstein emoting... — More…
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Tchaikovsky - Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5
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Boris Belkin (violin)
New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein (conductor) & Humphrey Burton (director)
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Charles Munch conducts Wagner, Franck & Fauré
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch
Munch was noted for his performances of French music and the [Franck] is treasure indeed...searing, warm-blooded and slightly brisker than Monteux's benchmark recording made the same year with... — More…
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Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66
Phyllis Curtin (soprano), Nicholas Di Virgilio (tenor), Tom Krause (baritone)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf
Although visually showing its age, the stereo sound on this broadcast of the American premiere of the War Requiem sounds remarkably fresh and vivid, and Leinsdorf is authoritative. — More…
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Tanglewood 75th Anniversary Celebration
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Peter Serkin (piano), Yo-Yo Ma (cello & director), Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Emanuel Ax (piano), James Taylor (vocals & guitar)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Boston Pops Orchestra, Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, David Zinman, Keith Lockhart, Andris Nelsons,...
If this all sounds rather eclectic, well, yes it is – but it all hangs together beautifully as a celebration of the festival’s diversity and joie de vivre. The performance styles, too, come together... — More…
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Offer, Great American Orchestras - The Big 5 Box
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, The Cleveland Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra
Mahler: Symphony No. 1
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf
Leinsdorf is efficient in Mahler's First Symphony and Till Eulenspiegel — More…
Charles Munch conducts Mozart & Handel
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch
Exhilarating performances of Mozart's Linz and Prague Symphonies and a splendid Handel Water Music, all from 1959-60. Occasional picture fuzziness. — More…
William Steinberg conducts Beethoven & Haydn
Boston Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg
Precise yet expressive, Steinberg's Beethoven Symphonies Nos 7 & 8 are models of clarity and rhythmic dynamism. The Haydn is excellent. — More…
Charles Munch conducts Debussy & Ravel
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch
he conveys a natural, relaxed, humane demeanour that justifies the nature of his physical activity...he shows himself to be a musician with both considerable expressive range and a direct, unaffected... — More…