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Library Essentials: Five Discs From Christmases Past

By on November 23, 2020 in Reviews

Before we focus attention on some of the newer Christmas releases–beginning later this week–we thought it would be useful to look back at a stocking-full of highly recommended earlier recordings that you may have missed, recordings particularly notable for their unique approaches to a body of repertoire at once familiar but either respectfully, often surprisingly […]

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Rough Ideas And The Little Bach Book

By on August 17, 2020 in Books, Reviews

Rough Ideas–Reflections On Music And More; Stephen Hough (Farar, Straus and Giroux; 2020) The Little Bach Book; David Gordon (Lucky Valley Press; 2017) However one manages life in a pandemic, I suggest that the disruption of former routines and the disorienting effects of ongoing uncertainty can be at least partially ameliorated by the transporting power […]

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Classical Gourmet: Essential Kitchen Companions

By on December 9, 2015 in Classical Gourmet

When we’re not listening to or writing about recordings–or, actually, sometimes when we are–Dave Hurwitz and I can usually be found in the kitchen, cooking, cutting, baking, frying, curing, proofing, stewing, or, well, you get the picture. For the past 15 years we’ve used our own kitchens as virtual test kitchens, trying all sorts of […]

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Six Christmas CDs That Always Make The List, Pt. 1

By on December 2, 2015 in Editorials, Features

Over the past 20-plus years I have accumulated hundreds of Christmas CDs–featuring choirs, orchestras, brass ensembles, guitar, harp, string quartet, piano, organ, etc., etc.–and I appreciate most of them for various reasons; but no matter how many newcomers join the collection, there are a few “oldies” that have more than stood the test of time. […]

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Six Christmas CDs That Always Make The List, Pt. 2

By on December 15, 2014 in Editorials

Since publishing last year’s “Six Christmas CDs That Always Make the List”, a few more titles either newly released or left out of the original group made their case for inclusion so strongly that I had to add a “Part 2”. So, here are another six Christmas CDs that together with the first set add […]

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New York Philharmonic and Music Director Alan Gilbert to Present New CD on Dacapo Records

By on May 2, 2013 in Press Releases

May 2, 2013—A significant new recording by the New York Philharmonic and its Music Director Alan Gilbert will be released by the Danish recording label Dacapo Records this month, featuring works by the Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg, who was the New York Philharmonic’s Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in-Residence from 2009-2012. In Europe, the release is set to […]

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Colin Davis, 1927-2013

By on April 16, 2013 in Press Releases

Music lovers all over the world will join in sadness at the news of the death of conductor Colin Davis.  Sir Colin passed away on Sunday evening, 14th April, at the age of 85, after an illness. He will be remembered for his long association with the London Symphony Orchestra, which began in 1959, and […]

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Everest Returns; Verdi Revived on 75 CDs

By on March 5, 2013 in Press Releases

Serious collectors will want to take note of two press releases we recently received, the first from Countdown Media, the second from Decca: “Countdown Media, a subsidiary of BMG Rights Management plans to reissue all early classical music recordings of the American “Everest Records” label from the late 1950s and early 1960s. The Everest catalog […]

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50 Shades of Tallis

By on July 11, 2012 in Press Releases

50 Shades of Grey leads The Tallis Scholars’ recording of Spem in alium to climb the charts The Tallis Scholars’ recording of Tallis’ magnificent 40-part motet Spem in alium is this week at number 7 in the official UK Classical Singles Chart. Tallis’s Spem in alium is featured in the controversial literary sensation 50 Shades of Grey by […]

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New York Philharmonic Weekly Radio Schedule, August 2012

By on July 7, 2012 in Press Releases

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 6, 2012 NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ANNOUNCES DETAILS OF WEEKLY RADIO BROADCASTS, THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC THIS WEEK, AUGUST 2012 Broadcast Highlights to Include the Opening Concert from the Philharmonic’s2012 Residency at Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival and the Best of CONTACT! Weekly Radio Broadcast Series Is Produced by the New York […]

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