KURTZ,EFREM/PHILHARMONIA ORCH. - Tchaikovsky / Sleeping Beauty - Suite From The Ballet (LP)

"...the disc confirms the suspicion that Efrem Kurtz is probably the finest conductor of ballet music in the world, certainly the supreme exponent of Tchaikovsky's ballets... A winner of a record." - Gramophone, September 1960 Efrem Kurtz, an imposing figure on the podium, who, with a graceful baton-less technique drew exceptionally lyrical playing out of the orchestras he conducted and was in great demand for his native Russian repertoire