
This disc is as beautifully planned as it is played and engineered. The two Saint-Saëns cello concertos are superb pieces–succinct, shapely, melodically memorable, passionate and
In the wake of violinist Lydia Mordkovitch’s untimely death in
This very beautiful disc features three of Arvo Pärt’s best
Joachim Raff’s symphonies have a reputation as being diffuse, bloated,
Wilhelm Stenhammar’s Serenade is unquestionably an orchestral masterpiece, one of
Estonian composer Eino Tamberg (b. 1930) is the real deal–a
The main purpose in putting this set together, obviously, was
No one especially loves Prokofiev’s Second Symphony. Even the composer
We know the drill: Järvi made too many records (who
Russian violinist Victor Tretyakov was 19 years old in 1966