Menu
Your guide to classical music online
Menu
Menu
Your guide to classical music online
Leila Josefowicz’s stimulating and refreshingly varied recital program opens with Messiaen’s Theme and Variations, a strangely beautiful work that, although it provides some timbral and
Remembered primarily for recordings of core 19th century classics, Gunter Wand (1912-2002) was once best known in Germany as a new-music advocate. These 1960s Bavarian
Messiaen’s music is almost performer-proof. I say this not to be critical, nor to damn this mostly excellent interpretation with faint praise. It’s just that
For the third volume in his complete Messiaen piano music survey, pianist Paul Kim is joined by his son Matthew in the seven-movement two-piano cycle
This is a fascinating program in which violinist Anne Akiko Meyers–herself Japanese-American–creates a dynamic dialogue between East and West. Bringing together works by Somei Satoh,
Anatol Ugorski’s 1993 recording of Messiaen’s magnum piano opus occasionally turned up in U.S. stores as a special import, and it wasn’t cheap. It’s now
As a Messiaen scholar and interpreter, Paul Kim’s affinity for, understanding of, and pianistic command of the composer’s singular idiom admirably manifest themselves throughout Vingt
This new recording of Messiaen’s Des canyons aux étoiles… makes a very impressive case for a colorful and ambitious work, and is even more successful
Born in 1978, pianist Severin von Eckardstein has recently made his mark on the European festival and competition scene. In 2000 he placed third at
There are very few instances on recordings of “bad” Messiaen. His musical style is too particular and his principal interpreters were too close to him
