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Dvorak, Brahms: Orchestral Music
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
Newly remastered, and new to CD, the dramatically charged Dvořák recordings made by Hans-Schmidt-Isserstedt for Decca and Deutsche Grammophon, coupled with the composer’s (and Brahms) folkloric dances.
Eloquence pays tribute to the...
Mendelssohn, Schumann: Symphonies
Antal Doráti
Noted for his Haydn and Mozart and for his affinity with 20th-century music from Berg to Bartók to Messiaen, the Hungarian conductor Antal Doráti also demonstrated a particularly idiomatic flair in presenting music of the early romantic era. Of...
Antal Doráti – The Mozart & Haydn Recordings on Mercury Living Presence
Antal Doráti
Antal Doráti’s complete Haydn and Mozart recordings for Mercury, predating his landmark collection of the Haydn cycle for Decca.
In 1966 the Stereo Review critic made a prescient observation: ‘Doráti here establishes himself as a...
Bach: French Suites
Thurston Dart
The so-called French Suites are actually no more French stylistically than either of Bach's other sets of keyboard suites, the English Suites and the Partitas. They are a fascinating mixture of movements of differing national styles, primarily...
Mozart: Serenades
Thurston Dart, Joseph Keilberth
A first international CD issue for two contrasting albums of light-orchestral Mozart from Joseph Keilberth and Thurston Dart.
The two albums reissued here exemplify the postwar revolution of Classical-era performance styles. Having begun to...
Mozart, Schubert: Symphonies
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, Walter Susskind
‘Like most of the great European conductors,’ wrote the critic Harold C. Schonberg, ‘[Schmidt-Isserstedt] has been brought up in a tradition that insists on selflessness before great music. The aim of conducting, as he sees it, is to bring...