This re-issue of a 1991 Marco Polo recording apparently is the only version available of these piano trios (two C major works and two fragments
The name of David Popper generally is known only to cellists, all of whom have had to struggle through his book of Etudes. The rest
Volume 4 of the continuing Naxos survey of the piano music of Enrique Granados includes three world premiere recordings. The performer is the American pianist
Ever wonder how Scriabin’s Divine Poem (Symphony No. 3) might sound on two pianos? Not bad at all, judging from a rare transcription by one
This first recording of Werther is still the best. There have been many others in up-to-date stereo sound with starry international casts, but none so
Björling fans will want to skip the radio-announcer intro (“This hour is yours. . .”) and the pinched-sounding, loose-limbed Semiramide overture by the San Francisco
It must have been in the late 1960s or early ’70s that I first encountered an album called the Baroque Beatles Book. I don’t remember
This 1931 recording of Giordano’s Andrea Chenier turns out to be a second-rate performance of a second-rate work. No one has ever called this opera
Leonardo Balada (b. 1933) is a contemporary Spanish composer heavily influenced by native Catalan folk music who also manages to transcend the imposing presence and
What we have here are the 12 solo sides George Gershwin recorded for Columbia in 1926 and 1928, his abridged 1924 acoustic Rhapsody in Blue,