
Entirely too little attention has been given in our time […]
This release aims to recreate a late 18th-century European musical salon, where hostesses played keyboard duos with family and friends. Although the fortepiano was in
This is one of those recordings that you just “discover” rather than actively search for. (Who knows that these things exist?) As a sometime violist,
This is the second release in the Basel-based Joseph Haydn Stiftung Foundation’s collaboration with Alpha in recording all of Haydn’s 107 symphonies, to be completed
Rehearing these recordings, I am struck by the fact that
Perhaps Wilhelm Friedemann Bach is the Rodney Dangerfield of the sons of Johann Sebastian, but like that successful “don’t get no respect” comedian (Dangerfield, not
This enthusiastically played and splendidly engineered disc contains the world-premiere recording of W.F. Bach’s Flute Concerto in D, recently (re-)discovered in the Ukraine by noted
W.F. Bach, oldest son of J.S., had a long and controversial life (1710-84) marred by accusations of erratic behavior, the likely result of alcoholism. Be
J.S. Bach’s talent seems to flow in his grandson’s blood at least as strongly as in any of his sons. Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach’s two
Whoever once quipped that the oboe was “an ill wind that nobody plays good,” probably never heard Allan Vogel. The virtuoso soloist scores points all