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Just about everything in this husband-and-wife Mozart concerto collaboration is ideal. For starters, the microphone placement captures Orli Shaham’s beautifully regulated Steinway and the St.
Reissue in Harmonia Mundi’s “Gold” series does nothing to change this program’s mostly uninspiring music making. The sole exception to the dully antiseptic impression that
This remarkable four-movement, 48-minute work for solo violin, orchestra, and cimbalom (a hammered dulcimer) packs quite a wallop. Composer John Adams explains that he was
The title of this album, “The Secrets of Dvorák’s Cello Concerto”, is deceptive. There are no secrets here, and no mysteries revealed. Indeed, the program
Guide to Strange Places is a marvelous, 20-minute-plus tone poem that might be thought of as a modern-day equivalent to Sibelius’ En Saga: it’s full
This marks the third commercial recording of John Adams’ Harmonielehre–quite remarkable for a classical piece composed as recently as 1985 (Górecki’s popular Symphony No. 3
Steve Reich revised his Different Trains in 2000, expanding the original string quartet to a full string orchestra. The result is a fuller, less strident
It’s always a joy to see a new recording of Alberto Ginastera’s music; but at the same time, his colorful, dynamic works demand playing and
This is a wild card, a work by a contemporary French composer (born 1952) whose music has been performed under Pierre Boulez with the Chicago
