
Born in 1936, the Brazilian pianist Clara Sverner amassed a fairly extensive body of recordings, mostly released in her native country. American collectors may have
The hook here is Steven Isserlis’ performances using a “trench cello”–a dismantle-able, portable instrument played by soldiers in First World War trenches–and the recording’s producers
The British pianist Kathleen Long (1896-1968) made a good number of recordings for Decca in the 1940s and 1950s, most of which have not been
When I initially glanced through the listed titles, I assumed that this recital’s theme had to do with music inspired by elements of nighttime. Well,
Seiji Ozawa is yet another one of those excellent conductors
We owe the huge number of Ansermet recordings to the
Imogen Cooper has put together a recital of pieces she worked on as a student at the Paris Conservatory and with Alfred Brendel in Vienna,
La Belle Époque encompasses a time period between the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71) and the outbreak of World War I (1914) when the French composers represented
I had never heard of the French pianist Emma Boynet
Pianist Éric Heidsieck’s Erato and HMV recordings made little headway