I disliked Naxos’ recording of Hamilton Harty’s Irish Symphony, finding the performance overly breathless and oddly balanced, but this version of the Piano Concerto is
Benjamin Frith’s survey of John Field’s piano concertos makes a fine impression with Nos. 5 and 6. The former, “L’incendie par l’Orage” (“Fire by Lightning”–a
Bartók’s music seems to be less popular than it was a few decades ago; at least it has been a while since major new recordings
Has it already been so long? Julia Fischer, as we
Around five years ago (2003) a young Hilary Hahn made her debut with her new label, Deutsche Grammophon, with exactly these same concertos, and it
[This is a re-post in tribute to and remembrance of
[Peter Schickele is best known as the delightfully clever musical humorist, promoter, presenter, and curator of the works of PDQ Bach, the “last and least”
Giovanni Sgambati (1841-1914) enjoyed a multi-faceted career. A pupil of Liszt, Sgambati stood out among 19th-century Italian pianists for his advocacy of the German school
That Giuseppe Martucci wrote symphonies at all is remarkable given his rearing in the primarily vocal Italian musical culture of the 19th century. But the
Riccardo Muti prioritizes beauty of sound over all else in this performance, with the result that you pay far more attention to the orchestral playing