Your guide to classical music online
Your guide to classical music online
The Schumann Piano Concerto and Dvorak Eighth Symphony might seem an odd coupling on disc, but they make a rather nice mini-concert for home listening.
Anyone who has resisted chamber music needs to hear this disc; it’s guaranteed to make you a convert. The music is exciting, beautiful, moving, and
This disc concludes the Panocha Quartet’s survey of Dvorák’s complete string quartets, a major enterprise by any standard. Both the Sixth and Seventh Quartets share
Zubin Mehta’s performance of Dvorák’s Eighth Symphony is as fine a version as anyone has recorded. The music literally “plays itself”, effortlessly flowing in an
This release contains some of the greatest cello playing ever captured by a recording device. If Pablo Casals gave the cello prominence as a solo
Zubin Mehta’s Dvorak Seventh features some outstanding playing from the Israel Philharmonic, especially the horns, and is recorded with remarkable richness and depth. His interpretation
It’s generally acknowledged that Dvorák’s piano works form perhaps the weakest segment of his output. How ironic, then, that one of his best known tunes
Recordings are more than simply sonic approximations of a live musical performance. Often, they are historic documents in and of themselves and their value is
Antal Dorati really gets into the spirit of Dvorak’s Slavonic Dances, as well he might: this is his third (!) complete recording of them. These
This coupling looks interesting on paper, and given better performances it might have worked. Martinu’s First Piano Quartet is a spiky, hyperactive work with an
