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Over the past couple of decades, the Christmas recordings of John Rutter and his Cambridge Singers have claimed such a solid and widely enjoyed presence among choral music fans that…
During the 1940s and 1950s the “World’s Most Popular Classical Pianist” mantle fell comfortably upon José Iturbi (1895-1980). His recognition as a radio personality led to a movie career that…
It comes as no surprise that this anthology of piano pieces by Filipino composers born between 1846 and 1895 is dominated by the influence of Southeast Asian and colonially-imposed Spanish…
Hans Rosbaud, born in Graz, Austria in 1895, led Germany’s South-West Radio Symphony Orchestra (the orchestra of the broadcaster established in the French Zone of Occupation that would go on…
Johann Nepomuk David (1895-1977) was a German/Austrian symphonist in the neoclassical style of Hindemith, although he sounds quite different. His music is buoyantly contrapuntal and rhythmically muscular, but far less…
The legendary pianist Walter Gieseking (1895-1956) began his prolific recording career with sessions for the German Homochord label between 1923 and 1927. While many Gieseking Homochords have previously turned up…
In Cendrillon by Jules Massenet (1895) Joyce DiDonato again serves notice that she is one of the most treasurable opera singers in the world. She is officially a light mezzo,…
APR’s series devoted to pupils of the influential British piano teacher Tobias Matthay continues with a three-disc collection containing the complete studio solo sessions of Harriet Cohen (1895-1967). Perhaps Cohen…
…Op. 72 No. 1 Nocturne, recorded in 1927 when the pianist was nearly 80. And there’s nothing remotely erratic or sloppy concerning Paderewski’s crystalline, gorgeously nuanced A minor Mazurka Op….
This survey of Vaughan Williams choral works–nearly all of them a cappella–spans his entire career and shows the particularly ingratiating style and affinity for voices that endeared him and his…