
There have been more than a few excellent recent releases of Grieg’s music for string orchestra, notably on Naxos, including orchestrations of his String Quartet
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
Rather than approximate the “authentic” sound of their time, these performances of Mozart’s violin concertos place them in an earlier era–around the time of Vivaldi.
I don’t mind a touch of perversity in this music, and “touch” is basically how Lazic achieves his perversity: his technique is amazing, and quite
In most respects these are extremely compelling, stylish performances, but they nevertheless earn only a guarded recommendation. Tempos are lively, but never to the point
All the ingredients are here for an outstanding Vivaldi disc. Emmanuel Pahud is a flute virtuoso who’s made memorable recordings of varied repertoire. He has
This second volume of Bach keyboard concertos is every bit as fine as the first (type Q9124 in the search box for that review). Angela
There has been no shortage of excellent Bach keyboard concerto performances on the piano, from Glenn Gould to Murray Perahia, and this newcomer certainly belongs
You have to know how to pick ’em. String quartets transcribed for string orchestra aren’t exactly the rarity they used to be, either on disc