One of Nino Rota’s 80-odd film scores, that for Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather, almost certainly is his best known work in any genre. Rota
The highlight of this sunny, consistently delightful disc comes in the form of 26 Variations on “La folia di Spagna”, based on one of the
This is an excellent disc, one that choral music lovers will want to snap up, and one whose program leaves you wondering why this music
At the tender age of 20, Constant Lambert wrote his ballet Romeo and Juliet for the famous Ballets Russes. A short time thereafter he completed
As pianist for the Borodin Trio, Luba Edlina has long distinguished herself as a cultivated musician and a team player who is unfailingly attuned to
What’s not to like? The best thing about Malcolm Arnold’s film music is that, like all great composers who work in this medium, it serves
The most interesting thing on this disc is Yan Pascal Tortelier’s surprisingly successful orchestral transcription of Ravel’s Piano Trio, a colorful piece of work that
Neeme Järvi’s sensibly paced but not all that wonderfully played Metamorphosen won’t win any awards, but his Aus Italien delivers the goods in spades, the
Northern Italy in the 1620s and ’30s was a hotbed for small ensemble writing. This collection presents a look into that period in music history,
Thanks to an enlightened decision by the composer’s widow, Ursula Vaughan Williams, we now have the opportunity to hear the original version of A London