An Assortment of Recommendations

…the editor suggested that instead of reviewing a new acquisition, I write something about CD’s I have known and loved. I agreed to the proposal and hence the list below.

Konyus, Davidov, Glazunov

While mentally calculating if I was suffering greater fiscal damage from the shopping extravaganza or the recent S&P 500 slide, I came across this new release, proudly displaying the Canadian Maple Leaf on its cover.

Karajan, Carmina Mystica, Beecham

Although it is almost ten years since the death of Herbert von Karajan, aside from the obvious lack of podium appearances to review, it is business as usual in the American and English press.

Stravinsky and Rachmaninoff

I am generally not the adventurous sort, tending to abide by Voltaire’s alleged remark that “marriage is the only adventure for the cowardly.”