
The idea of playing the vocal part of Schubert’s Winterreise on the modern slide trombone may seem far-fetched on paper, yet the multi-talented Matthew Gee’s
Like the previously released Szell edition from Sony, this is
Recorded live at the Semper-Oper in Dresden on February 17, 1985, this Winterreise with the late tenor Peter Schreier and pianist Sviatoslav Richter first appeared
In 2010 and 2011 Deutsche Grammophon brought out two “Giulini
Alexander Brailowsky (1896-1976) made his first recordings for the German
Many years back I was fortunate enough to acquire a
In 2012 pianist Andreas Eggertsberger was diagnosed with focal dystonia. After five years of intensive therapy and basically re-learning the piano, Eggertsberger considered himself healed
Alexander Lonquich’s Schubert playing straddles a thin line between fastidious detailing and micromanagement. The C minor D. 958 sonata’s Allegro boasts dotted rhythms that make
DG’s remastering of this marvelous Mahler Ninth eliminates some odd
It doesn’t get any duller than this first release in what promises to be a worthless new series of Schubert symphonies. Oh joy. These are