
I had never heard of the Rosi & Toni Grunschlag Piano Duo until I stumbled across this disc in a second-hand bin. Naturally I couldn’t
Despite his high standing among conductors who dominated the American
Writing chamber music for mixed winds with or without piano always seems to bring out the best in composers. Darius Milhaud’s busy bitonal style operates
After lavish and huge boxed sets for Maria Callas and
As with previous anthologies culled from Lugano Festival’s Progetto, Martha Argerich, the 2014 edition offers a fairly diverse range of music. Argerich herself participates in
Not long after I reviewed Gabriele Baldocci’s superb recording of the Beethoven/Liszt First and Sixth symphonies, a CD arrived in the mail containing a live
Milhaud’s La création du Monde used to be quite popular, at least on disc, but it seems to have vanished from the discography recently, at
The Afflatus Quintet’s novel and judicious choice of wind music from the first half of the 20th century makes for a wonderfully engaging album. Paul
This is a thoroughly entertaining, at times enlightening CD. The 11 songs by Satie have been orchestrated–two by Easley Blackwood, the others by Robert Caby–but
Here’s another enterprising recital from crack virtuosa Sharon Bezaly and her team. The only drawback on the entire disc is the singing of Barbara Hendricks