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...This ''Emperor'' was recorded in Dresden in late 1984 and is vintage Arrau. Like Schnabel, Arrau believes that the best interpretation is the one that lets the music speak most directly to the listener. Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2. Christopher Hogwood conducting the Academy of Ancient Music (L'Oiseau-Lyre). Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 7. Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra (RCA). No greater contrast can be imagined. Original Instrument Specialist Hogwood offers light, fleet, graceful performances that explicitly evoke Beethoven's classical- period roots. Toscanini, on the other hand, is rough and hard charging in these...
...cheese." This popular photo prompter of the English-speaking world is thought to have begun in British public schools around 1920, though society portraitist Cecil Beaton preferred his subjects to mouth the word "lesbian." Just as perverse, the French often opt for "le petit oiseau va sortir," Spaniards say "patata," while the Japanese have adopted the English term "whisky." As the relator of such delightful trivia, the latest elicitor of the smile is author Angus Trumble, whose A Brief History of the Smile (Basic Books; 226 pages) produces an abundance of them. Begun as a speech delivered to the Royal...
Deutsche Grammophon, RCA, CBS, London, Philips, L'Oiseau-Lyre and Angel are among the labels whose main line recordings you can trust for sound and disc quality. You should expect to pay in the neighborhood of $8 for a top-quality main line record or tape that is not on sale...
BEETHOVEN: SYMPHONY NO. 3 (L'Oiseau-Lyre). Christopher Hogwood leads the "Eroica," exhilaratingly performed on period instruments by the Academy of Ancient Music...
MOZART: REQUIEM (L'OISEAU-LYRE). Christopher Hogwood fervently leads Musicologist Richard Maunder's new edition of the unfinished masterpiece...