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Until now the recording of choice for the Alkan sonata To access this content you must login to your Insider account, or purchase a subscription for $5 monthly, or $49 annually.
The centerpiece of this very interesting and well-planned recital consists of a dynamite performance of Alkan’s blisteringly difficult Sonate de concert for cello and piano.
Alkan’s chamber music deserves much more attention: It’s a crime that terrific works like his Sonate de concert for cello and piano have almost no
If you’d like to access the full scope of Alkan’s quirky style in bite-sized proportions rather than piling into the Concerto for Solo Piano, Les
The big news about this recording of Alkan’s mammoth Concerto for Solo Piano can be found on the front cover, below the work title. It
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Until now the recording of choice for the Alkan sonata To access this content you must login to your Insider account, or purchase a subscription
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The centerpiece of this very interesting and well-planned recital consists of a dynamite performance of Alkan’s blisteringly difficult Sonate de concert for cello and piano.
Alkan’s chamber music deserves much more attention: It’s a crime that terrific works like his Sonate de concert for cello and piano have almost no
If you’d like to access the full scope of Alkan’s quirky style in bite-sized proportions rather than piling into the Concerto for Solo Piano, Les
The big news about this recording of Alkan’s mammoth Concerto for Solo Piano can be found on the front cover, below the work title. It
The reissue game continues. All of this material has been available more or less continuously in recent years, with the exception of Frühbeck’s Three-Cornered Hat,
Here’s a nice mix of Manuel de Falla’s original piano pieces and piano arrangements from orchestral works, well programmed, well recorded, and superbly played. Jason
Review: At Last, A Truly Great Tchaikovsky ""Manfred"
Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony. Ural Philharmonic Orchestra, Dmitry Liss (cond.) Fuga Libera
The Greatest Recordings EVER! Cluytens Conducts Wagner
Wagner: Opera Preludes and Interludes; Siegfried-Idyll. Rita Gorr (soprano), Paris Opera Orchestra, André Cluytens (cond.) Testament
Latin Popular Music! (Random Reviews from the Overflow Room)
One of my dearest friends gave me these discs before passing away at the far-too-young age of 43. He was Puerto Rican, a major music lover, and one of the kindest people I have ever known. Frankie, this one's for you!
Review: The Biggest Heifetz Rip-Off Of All Time
Heifetz Plays Violin Concertos: Beethoven, Brahms Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn, Bruch, Prokofiev, Mozart. RCA "Original Album Classics" (5 CDs, full price)
Music Chat: Pianos Are Male, Violins Are Female (Or At Least Bisexual)
This chat is a followup to our excellent discussion of sniffy violinists who maintain that the great composers didn't know how to write idiomatically for their instrument, and also to a much earlier video called "The Vibrato Monologues"--a reading of a paper I presented at the American Musicological Society on the sexual politics of expressive string playing. The contrast between the two groups of musicians, pianists and violinists, is truly striking. Here are links to those earlier videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvH_6FfgI-k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGj9h_sdJMo
Lawes and Lauro (Random Reviews from the Overflow Room)
A master of English consort music, and a popular Venzuelan composer for the guitar, together in the Overflow Room.
This year’s Tanglewood on Parade, a much-anticipated tradition that dates to 1940, will celebrate the life and legacy
April 24, 2024—GRAMMY®-winning production house PARMA Recordings announced today its acquisition of Albany Records. The classical label is
Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada—The Festival of the Sound is celebrating big this summer with an incredible line-up of
