
What appears to be a hodgepodge of French pieces actually emerges as a carefully crafted program. Pianist Jorge Federico Osorio begins with Fauré’s famous Pavane,
We’ve been here before. Most of the Fauré recordings contained in this 12-disc set have been reissued too many times to count. Still, for what
If, as pianist Daniel Grimwood has suggested, it is true
Is it really true that Fauré’s piano music is too intimately scaled and harmonically refined to make an impact in large halls? Louis Lortie’s first
Violinist Christian Svarfvar first caught my attention with his intimately idiomatic interpretations of the three Grieg sonatas, released in 2013 on the Sterling label, a
A little more than 20 years ago a record label called Cala released a series of discs that featured various single-instrument ensembles–violins, violas, horns, trombones–with
It’s all too easy to take Kathryn Stott for granted.
Originally presented as an exercise in performance art (and captured live with some minor audience noise), this program of pieces either directly or indirectly related
Emil Gilels was the first great Soviet pianist to make
The gem on this disc is Koechlin’s remarkable orchestration of