
Artur Balsam’s stellar reputation as a collaborative pianist and chamber music player has been well served via Bridge’s series of live Library of Congress archival
Leonid Kogan was one of several Soviet artists who burst upon the Western classical music scene in the mid-1950s, astonishing all with their incredible technique
How many times do these familiar performances have to be reissued on CD? Not enough, it seems. In any case, the Lipatti/Galliera 1947 Grieg Concerto
Paul Bailey’s Testament transfers of the three Mozart concertos Solomon recorded in the early 1950s boast a tonal richness and ambient bloom that supercedes EMI’s
The subtitle, “The Unpublished EMI Recordings 1955-1958”, stirs both apprehension and anticipation. Apprehension, because the immediate question that comes to mind is “why were they
Benno Moiseiwitsch was one of the most eloquent and aristocratic of Romantic pianists, and his recordings have garnered recent attention from reissue firms like Arbiter,
Here, in terrible sound and occasionally interrupted by plot commentary in French, is an almost complete performance of Puccini’s one-acter, Il tabarro (actually the first
Recorded in concert 10 months before his death in December, 1950, Dinu Lipatti’s assertive yet sensitive pianism captures the full measure of Chopin’s youthful genius,