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Touching Colors is a short (13-minute) concerto for organ and orchestra in the best tradition of German Klangfarbenmelodie, which isn’t meant to be amusing because
Midori’s dazzling recital of French violin sonatas on SACD trumps its CD companion (type Q5668 in Search Reviews) by the usual small margin in sound
This well-filled disc contains extremely distinguished performances of all three works, particularly the Lalo, a piece that so often winds up being merely annoying but
Cannes Classical Award-winning Young Artist of the Year Sharon Bezaly really struts her stuff in this charming, intelligently chosen selection of French gems for flute
Here’s another outstanding disc by Maxim Vengerov, a successful frontal assault on three showpiece pillars of French Romanticism. The Lalo and the Saint-Saëns were written
Rock star Sting turns out to be an exceptionally lucid storyteller, making his rendition of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf quite enthralling. His knack for
If you spent any time at all in hi-fi stores in the early-1970s you probably got an earful of Louis Frémaux’s EMI Massenet LP, especially
These SACD multichannel remasterings sound amazingly fine and true to life, so much so that the standard stereo issues don’t even begin to compare. The
This collection gathers Saint-Saëns’ complete solo piano output, piano duets, and two-piano works under one roof, with the Carnival of the Animals thrown in for
There are so many recordings of this symphony, and so few are as fine as we would hope. This is no exception: it’s well played,
