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Almost equally exhaustive is the Mozart year's biggest recording project: the collected works on 180 Philips CDs in 45 volumes, some 200 hours of music. Released at a rate of 12 to 15 CDs a month, the set already includes all the symphonies, played by Sir Neville Marriner and...
As if matters were not muddled enough, a storm has erupted in recent years over the uneven quality and accuracy of mammograms around the U.S. "Half the states do not have a licensing procedure for radiologic technologists. It could be the office receptionist pushing those buttons," warns Marie Zinninger, a...
Philips, however, is gambling that software is vital. At an electronics show in Las Vegas this week, the Dutch company plans to demonstrate a new system (oh no, not again!) that will record digitally and play both digital and analog cassettes. Several record companies, including Polygram (a Philips subsidiary), have...
Tchaikovsky and Verdi Arias, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone; Valery Gergiev conducting the Rotterdam Philharmonic (Philips). Hvorostovsky, 28, has a voice that is big, rich and -- most important -- silky smooth. There hasn't been a baritone with this force and allure since the young Hermann Prey.
Beethoven: "Diabelli" Variations, Alfred Brendel, piano (Philips). The publisher asked Beethoven for one variation of a simple little waltz tune; he wrote 33, and a masterpiece. Brendel performs with style and insight, verve and elan.