
Most all of this material has been reissued previously, but […]
To those who follow and truly care about these things,
When it comes to program building, normal pianists save Scriabin’s tumultuous and incendiary Vers la flamme for a grand finale. To open with Vers la
The young Danish pianist Kristoffer Hyldig first came to my attention by way of his recording of Messiaen’s large-scale song cycle Harawi featuring mezzo-soprano Hetna
For his second Pentatone release Lost & Found, Sean Shibe trades in his acoustic guitar for an electric model, supplanted by an array of sophisticated
Seiji Ozawa is yet another one of those excellent conductors
Lera Auerbach’s four-movement Third Sonata alternates between slow and fast sections. The slow music evokes late Shostakovich, but with more pronounced register extremes and plenty
Simon Rattle is a cypher. His highly variable achievement on
Although Yvonne Loriod (1924-2010) was best known for giving standard-setting
Anatol Ugorski was not a favored artist in the Soviet