

Poulenc’s music is supposed to be lighthearted, easy to play, and not too technically demanding. Why then are there so many lousy performances of it?

HOW TO MAKE BEETHOVEN IN FIVE EASY STEPS MAIN INGREDIENTS

This is a remarkably generous, perfectly dreadful program: eighty-six minutes

These performances of Mozart’s last three symphonies represent just about the best we can expect from the school of “historically informed performance,” which is to

What a strange disc! Given Jos van Immerseel’s “authentic-instrument” credentials you would expect something out of the ordinary–but “ordinary” is all we get here. These
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