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 ...

Classical CDs: Elves, Oak Trees and Misty Windows Carl Nielsen: The Ultimate Solo Piano Collection Rikke Sandberg (OUR ...

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.

The preamble to this review—a cursory glance at the state of the state of box sets in classical music—precedes the first of these three reviews, namely the orchestral works conducted by Ferenc Fricsay ...

It’s 9 o’clock. Do you know where your Beethoven is? There’s something in many music lovers that urges us to answer a question like that by collecting everything together — to make sure we aren’t ...

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 ...