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HAVING one's love of a great recording upstaged by the claim, "but of course I actually heard him do it live," can be intensely annoying. Now, with countless radio stations selling their archive tapes (or having them, let's say—borrowed'), the enthusiast can justify the ultimate counter-snub:...

Devotees of Soviet Russia's greatest symphonist should prepare themselves for some recorded revelations. Pearl has a fascinating Shostakovich double-pack in the pipeline which includes Stokowski's pre-war commercial Philadelphia recordings of the First and Fifth Symphonies, plus his December 1942...

With the Concertgebouw still in mind, Michael G. Thomas has located a rare, live 1940 broadcast recording of the Hindemith Violin Concerto, with Ferdinand Helman as soloist, and conducted by that most charismatic of rostrum pioneers, Willem Mengelberg. This new addition to Thomas's "Mengelberg...