
Otto Klemperer was a pioneer in period instrument performance, after […]
Maria Yudina’s 1968 recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations gained its first official international CD release in 1999 as part of Philips’ deleted Great Pianists of
Over the past two decades Gottfried Schneider has given us valuable recordings of rare repertoire like Dohnányi’s Violin Concerto, Martin’s Polyptique Etudes for Violin and
Having very favorably reviewed several earlier installments of the Bach Collegium Japan’s now near-complete cycle of Bach cantatas, listening to this 52nd volume is a
Although the nickname was a joke, Janet Baker was indeed
Although Murray Perahia, Glenn Gould, and András Schiff rightly dominate
This 55-CD set chronicles the remarkable Archiv label, begun in
This long-deleted Essential Classics reissue (available again courtesy of Arkivmusic.com’s
The English Suites constitute Richard Egarr’s most artistically satisfying solo Bach release to date. As always, his playing abounds with rhythmic liberties and agogic phrasings,
Bach’s cantata BWV 199 begins “My heart swims in blood/The results of my sins/Transform me into a monster,” and ends, “And through my grief and