More cool stuff from Australia! The Queensland seaside city of Townsville deserves a lot of credit for sponsoring both the 1999 Australian Festival of Chamber Music and this recording, particularly…
This is an historically important work, “Rossini-ly” speaking, and I believe there have been only a pair of recordings of it: An exciting “private” set with Leyla Gencer from performances…
Vladimir Ashkenazy’s 1999 recital devoted to late Chopin works may cover familiar stomping ground for this pianist, yet it’s hardly a case of “same old same old”. For example, the…
The French violinist David Grimal (born in 1973) first came to my attention via his position as artistic director of the conductor-less orchestra Les Dissonances. Later on I heard his…
Arthur Rubinstein’s 82 years before the public comprised one of the longest and most fulfilling piano careers in history. He adored giving concerts, and audiences in turn responded to the…
In the aftermath of her 1965 Warsaw Chopin Competition victory, Martha Argerich recorded a Chopin recital for EMI. Her commitment to Deutsche Grammophon at the time prevented the recording from…
[This month begins the count-down to Classicstoday.com’s 25th year since our launch in 1999. In celebration, today we are revisiting three reviews from our first week of publication. All of…
[This month begins the count-down to Classicstoday.com’s 25th year since our launch in 1999. In celebration, today we are revisiting three reviews from our first week of publication. All of…
[This month begins the count-down to Classicstoday.com’s 25th year since our launch in 1999. In celebration, today we are revisiting three reviews from our first week of publication. All of…
No one knew when Robert Shaw made this recording in November, 1999, that it would not only be a crowning personal achievement for the conductor and his Atlanta musicians, but…