
It’s a thousand pities that the Quatuor Mosaïques never completed […]
For a conductor who had such a long and extensive
This intelligently selected (by Alan Newcombe), nicely representative collection of
Once past the sly title, designed to bring the word “ménage” to mind, underscored by the come-hither look of the CD cover, not to mention
It says something about Britten’s ability as a performer of
This must be one of the best recordings of classical
It would be wonderful to give this set a “10”
Haydn’s Symphony No. 102 is one of his very greatest, and the most forward looking—anticipatory of Beethoven. This performance is generic “historically informed”: quick, mechanical,
Haydn scholar H.C. Robbins Landon described Haydn’s D major cello concerto as one of the composer’s “weakest compositions”, an “uncomfortable” work, displaying “misjudgments of dramatic
There’s not a great deal of logic behind this box,