
Another missed opportunity! Solti recorded some terrific Bartók, specifically his […]
Pieter Wispelwey certainly ranks among today’s finest cellists. His recordings for Channel Classics have been uniformly outstanding, due both to the label’s own high quality
Adam Fischer’s previous Kodály disc on Nimbus (type Q9524 in Search Reviews) was marred by an over-reverberant recording that took the edge off the performances.
To program a substantial 20th-century piece for violin and cello duo followed by a Baroque transcription is like playing an overture at the end of
Testament’s re-release of this 1962 OSR Shostakovich Fifth serves as gentle reminder that the spectacle of conductors making recordings of repertoire ill-suited to them is
These performances were recorded by RCA in the ’90s by the famous team of Joanna Nickrenz and William Hoekstra, but never issued. AAM has rescued
Who knew that Kodály composed three discs’ worth of chamber music for cello, either alone or in combination with violin or piano? This is marvelous
The Phillips brothers–Jean-Marc, also violinist with the acclaimed Trio Wanderer, and cellist Xavier–join forces and deliver technically accomplished, emotionally intense, and musically absorbing performances of
A gifted cellist himself, Zoltán Kodály wrote a small but consistently excellent amount of works for his own instrument. After the monumental Sonata for cello
Apart from his ever-popular Háry János Suite, very little of Kodály’s orchestral music gets much attention these days. I’m particularly pleased, therefore, that Yan Pascal