

Two caveats for prospective customers: One is that Earl Wild […]

I first encountered Lori Sims in several recitals and collaborative performances at the Gilmore Festival in Kalamazoo (where she is piano professor at Western Michigan

The death of William Kapell in a 1953 plane crash

The booklet notes for this release begin with a rather befuddled paragraph that contains the following sentences: “To Anna Scheps, an indispensable part of her

The excellent booklet notes by our very own Jed Distler

A recent Paris Conservatory graduate, Guillaume Vincent has chosen all 24 Rachmaninov Preludes for his Naïve solo debut. Trouble sets in right away, when the

This live recording has a lot going for it. Petrenko leads a taut, disciplined, very well-played performance of the First Symphony. Tempos are swift, and

A popular pianist in his day, Witold Malcuzynski’s reputation has

Once upon a time before recitals became all too serious, pianists would finish their programs with an encore, or two, or three. Or maybe ten,

Since pianist Yuja Wang and conductor Gustavo Dudamel count among Deutsche Grammophon’s young superstars, it was inevitable that they collaborate on disc. In the Rachmaninov
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