
There was a time when DG was a provincial German label, German orchestras were pretty mediocre, and just about any release not containing German basic
This enjoyable program adds up to more than the sum of its parts. Pictures at an Exhibition gets a very good reading–not perhaps the most
I agree fully with Victor Carr Jr’s assessment of these gentle but fresh and sensitively detailed performances (see reviews). The Nocturnes are particularly outstanding, with
These are very fine performances, recorded during the go-go 1980s when Universal (and everyone else) was issuing standard-rep CDs like they were going out of
The 1907 Blüthner grand belonging to the piano collection of Michael and Patricia Frederick is of similar type to the Blüthner that Debussy owned and
Judging from clarinetist Dieter Klocker’s technique, it comes as no surprise that he’s highly regarded as a teacher. He cultivates a smooth and focused sonority,
You can understand why this was an award-winning release in 1990, for Zoltan Kocsis is an instrumentalist who can make a piano do whatever he
Sylvain Cambreling’s acute familiarity with Debussy’s orchestral style makes for exceptionally translucent performances wherein manifold inner details emerge with unprecedented clarity, yet always within the
Duncan Gifford’s most interesting work in the Debussy Preludes occurs in pieces where the fingers are given the most to do. In Book 1, for
Rebecca Penneys’ previous Fleur de Son Classics release (Recital Gems from Chautauqua–see review by typing Q6075 in Search Reviews) offered a memorable, intelligently conceived program