
Brilliant Classics must love Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari’s two early piano trios. Within a year of releasing the Trio Archè’s CD, the label brings out these works
The two piano trios that Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876-1948) composed early in his career display inventiveness and communicative vibrancy comparable to what you find in his
Composer of a bunch of chamber music as well as 15 operas, most of which are comic, the half-German, half-Italian Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari is rarely heard
Good as Credo, Hélène Grimaud’s first album for DG was,
They don’t write ’em like this anymore. This splendid program
For years Nello Santi was the second string Italian conductor
This is the third recording of these charming Wolf-Ferrari works to come out in the past few years. It’s easy to understand why. The music
Much of this music appeared on a recent disc on the PhilArtis label. Those performances were serviceable, but there’s no question that the music makes
Billed as the first disc in a complete Wolf-Ferrari orchestral works edition, this release offers some 77 minutes of relentlessly charming, emotionally undemanding music. In
How do you blow a Wolf-Ferrari program? Even Neville Marriner, not exactly Mr. Personality on the podium, delivered fine performances of this largely unassuming, colorful,