The 17-CD DG set presents the conductor with the ensemble he loved most, Pittsburgh, which he headed from 1952 to 1976. (Incredibly, he remained Pittsburgh’s music director even after assuming ...

This five-CD set celebrates the 30 th anniversary of the chamber music festival that the intrepid Latvian violinist Gidon Kremer founded in the small Austrian village of Lockenhaus.

The set starts with 11th-century Gregorian chant, continues through Renaissance (such as Tallis and Palestrina), Baroque (Monteverdi, Vivaldi, Bach, Handel, Purcell), classical (Haydn, Mozart ...

Given all the fabulous classical box sets that appeared this year, you'd think we were in some kind of boom era for music served up on compact discs. (2013? More like 1993.) Why?

What do you get the person who has everything? The answer to that seasonally persistent question, at least for those who love classical music, is, well . . . everything. And that’s easy enough ...

Given all the fabulous classical box sets that appeared this year, you'd think we were in some kind of boom era for music served up on compact discs. (2013? More like 1993.) Why?

Given all the fabulous classical box sets that appeared this year, you'd think we were in some kind of boom era for music served up on compact discs. (2013? More like 1993.) Why?

reviews, news & interviews Classical CDs: Big boxes, Russian ballets, wind concertos and baroque sonatas Box sets celebrating Italian conductors, plus a pair of contrasting piano discs and 20th ...

The best part of the Michel Corboz classical and romantic box set is the sacred choral music by Mendelssohn. Corboz is not as well-known for his classical and romantic era recordings.

Michel Corboz’s baroque and renaissance box set is quite a treat. Warner Classics This is a paean to Erato. Not the ancient Greek muse of lyric poetry, but the French classical music record label.