Here’s an attractive Schumann collection that mixes familiar fare such as Kreisleriana and Fantasiestücke with the less frequently explored Nachtstücke, Bunte Blätter, and even rarer
This music doesn’t exactly suffer from catalog underexposure, yet Lise de la Salle’s clear, direct, and musically sound performances are worth your attention. Pedaling sparingly,
Bernard Haitink’s reading of this glorious, misty work is gloriously misty, if that’s what you’re looking for. Haitink is a conductor who to my ears
Although there’s no explicit mention of it anywhere on this set, this mid-priced two-disc collection was released as a tie-in to an art exhibition currently
Berlioz would not have liked this performance. He was a conductor in the “classical” vein, who favored steady speeds and clean rhythms. Eschenbach, on the
This Allegri Miserere will come as a shock to listeners familiar with the more or less “standard” version of this perennially popular work. Of course
Bernard Haitink’s tepid and toothless Concertgebouw Mahler Sixth was the wet blanket of his otherwise generally fine complete cycle (a Berlin remake, part of an
The Swiss-born, Dutch-trained baritone Bernard Kruysen has long been associated with French song, at least in his long series of recordings with the superb pianist
This two-fer (two CDs at reduced price) is worth buying for the first CD alone. Rinaldo Alessandrini has “reconstructed”–from bits of Monteverdi’s religious music–what he
This is an inexpensive pairing of two previously released Opus 111 recordings. The packaging is minimal–any information about the works, as well as texts, must