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Leonard Bernstein was a tireless champion of American music during his conducting career, presenting many world-premieres and leaving an impressive body of recordings–most for Columbia
It’s not easy to warm to Samuel Barber’s choral music.
It’s a brave choir that attempts a full program of Samuel Barber choral works, which tend to be craggy, tough, and harmonically edgy and dry,
Aaron Copland’s delightful and oft-recorded violin sonata opens this recording, whose program is one of the more intelligent, thoughtfully designed, and best played you’ll ever
[Peter Schickele is best known as the delightfully clever musical humorist, promoter, presenter, and curator of the works of PDQ Bach, the “last and least”
Ruth Slenczynska’s remarkable life story is well known to many piano mavens. Her 1958 autobiography, Forbidden Childhood, describes in harrowing detail the trauma she endured
Although noted for his performances of French repertoire, Berlioz especially,
This disc begins promisingly with Sonoko Miriam Welde’s very fine rendition of the Bruch Violin Concerto where her bright yet full tone ideally conveys both
This latest release from Michael Stern and the Kansas City Symphony reveals typically enterprising programming: three one-movement symphonies in widely divergent styles, ranging from Barber’s
Although Shura Cherkassky’s unabashedly subjective and capricious style was out
