[ Naxos Historical Great Conductors / 3 CD ]
Release Date: Sunday 27 April 2008
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"...Naxos provides an unexpectedly rich sound-frame, quite amazing given the year. There are times when Mengelberg's (truncated) Bach Passion sounds almost as Wagnerian as Furtwangler's Tristan, rapt one moment, explosively emotional the next, but its narrative impact holds you captive."
-- The Independent, 5/04/04
"...Naxos provides an unexpectedly rich sound-frame, quite amazing given the year. There are times when Mengelberg's (truncated) Bach Passion sounds almost as Wagnerian as Furtwangler's Tristan, rapt one moment, explosively emotional the next, but its narrative impact holds you captive."
-- Rob Cowan, The Independent, 5/04/04