
Most all of this material has been reissued previously, but […]
If you’re new to the music of Anton Webern, this superb budget CD is just the introduction you need. Until now, there’s been nothing much
Among prominent pianists of our time, Maurizio Pollini represented the
The hook here is Steven Isserlis’ performances using a “trench cello”–a dismantle-able, portable instrument played by soldiers in First World War trenches–and the recording’s producers
Webern’s early 1905 String Quartet runs the gamut from motivic severity to chromatic sludge at loud and soft extremes. By virtue of their impeccable intonation,
In my review of Joseph Szigeti’s Complete Columbia Album Collection
Interspersing Bach Toccatas and works by Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern proves more interesting as an idea than an actual program. Granted, the E minor Toccata’s
In the years following his death in 1945, Anton Webern’s
Herbert von Karajan wanted us to believe that he excelled
Pierre Boulez was a new music conductor of the old