
There is no musical genre more blissfully bound by tradition than that of Christmas music. The reasons for this are many and debatable, but suffice
Pianist Eduardo Fernández first caught my attention through his superb recording of Albéniz’s Iberia. His second solo release is devoted to late Brahms, and for
Christoph von Dohnányi used to joke ruefully that every time
Robert Schumann not only was a master of the piano miniature, but he also had a knack for assembling such pieces into well-ordered compilations. As
Many of these “original jacket” releases exist for no other
There was a guiding intelligence behind this set, something we
Hélène Grimaud claims to have a special affinity for Brahms,
The playing here is so beautiful that it’s sad to
This famous performance of the Janácek Sinfonietta was not superceded
Abbado is nothing if not predictable. As this set shows,