Deutsche Grammophon has issued a new CD featuring the Philadelphia Orchestra in two of Rachmaninoff's works - the First Symphony and the Symphonic Dances. How are the performances? Let's just say that my review will earn me a good bit of hate mail. Click here to read.
I was only aware of these recordings from the discography in Donald Rosenberg's superb history of The Cleveland Orchestra, Second to None. Now they have been remastered and published on two CDs. The set includes Szell's and the orchestra's first known stereo studio recordings. Click here to read my review.
