With the traditional music industry in shambles, the larger labels are repackaging their deep catalogs as never before, releasing well-conceived box sets that are modestly priced for the amount of ...
If you’re holding your breath awaiting the end of the compact-disc era, don’t exhale quite yet. Because, yes, there’s more. Believe it or not, the great conductors of the past (to say nothing of ...
This is a paean to Erato. Not the ancient Greek muse of lyric poetry, but the French classical music record label. Founded in 1953, Erato is now owned by Warner Classics, and thank goodness for that.
As with Warner Classics’s recent André Previn box set, begin at the end. Jon Tolansky’s audio documentary is on the last disc in this 91-CD box, chronicling Riccardo Muti’s galvanising effect on a ...