
Violin virtuoso Kristin Lee serves up a delightful and stylistically wide-ranging cornucopia of American music, performed with unalloyed joy, style and effortless technique, abetted by
A professor at the Tartini Conservatory in Trieste, Italian pianist Martina Frezzotti studied with Lazar Berman, and later with Elisso Virsaladze at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory
The title of this CD is self-explanatory, and the choice of repertoire is admirably varied, if not always memorably interpreted by Deborah Moriarty and Zhihua
Choral music fans are well acquainted with a handful of elite choirs based within the colleges of England’s University of Cambridge, the usual suspects being
The piano quintet genre often brings out the best in composers. Think of Schumann, Brahms, Franck, Dvorák, Fauré, and Shostakovich, for example. Add Amy Beach
It’s a national disgrace that there hasn’t been a complete cycle of the symphonic music of William Grant Still. It’s disgraceful not because Still was
Amy Beach’s songs are pleasant enough, and certainly well-crafted, with smartly chosen texts–Burns, Longfellow, Browning, Shelley, and some lesser-known poets, including Beach herself. But most
Slowly, slowly, more and more of Amy Marcy Cheney Beach’s music is being rediscovered. The composer of more than 300 works (nearly all of which
If you’re having only one Amy Beach CD (and you should have at least one), let this be your choice. It’s a mystery why the
This BIS album of music by American composer Amy (“Mrs. H.H.A.”) Beach is a classic example of mismatched performer and repertoire. The acclaimed soprano Emma