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Although Leonard Bernstein had a reputation as a heavy-duty interventionist in music of the late romantic period, even in his late phase he never lost
Here’s an excellently curated selection representing VAI’s numerous live releases featuring tenor Jon Vickers. The tenor’s larger-than-life voice and intense communicative gifts transform the Dvorák
Oleg Marshev hunts and pecks his way through the Schubert B-flat sonata’s first movement, with a mannered distension here, an arbitrary tenuto there, an outsized
On evidence here, David Fray is an excellent musician, technically very well equipped but willing to place his virtuosity entirely in the service of the
Claudio Arrau used to read “proximity to death” into Schubert’s last piano sonata, and indeed, the work contains many foreboding, dark corners. Yet there’s also
There are some splendid piano trios now playing and recording, as recent releases by the likes of the Florestan Trio (Hyperion), the Abegg Trio (Tacet),
It’s interesting that many artists will do things on recordings that they would seldom do live. Colin Davis recorded this same symphony with this same
On the evidence of this sensational disc, it seems clear that Sharon Bezaly is a flutist virtually without peer in the world today. The only
Pentatone Classics has staked its very young reputation (and its name, literally) on the surround-sound medium, so its initial releases come with high expectations. In
Inon Barnatan’s name first caught my attention via positive accounts of his performance of Schubert’s posthumous B-flat sonata during Leon Fleisher’s 2004 Carnegie Hall master
