
This second installment in Audite’s complete series of Saint-Saëns piano […]
We badly need a first-rate Saint-Saëns piano concerto cycle in
There’s been a small flurry of recent interest in the
Aside from his extensive work in opera and oratorio, over the last decade baritone Gerald Finley has put together an impressive collection of recordings of
This is without question a truly great orchestral recording. French
The big discovery here is Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s Concertino of 1948. It sounds for all the world like a Russian take on Barber’s concerto: highly lyrical,
To say that Thomas Sanderling’s new Prokofiev Symphony No. 5 recording is totally unnecessary would be an understatement–it’s so frustrating that it borders on effrontery.
Boris Tishchenko provides splendid orchestrations of three absolutely wonderful song cycles. Satires, originally composed for Galina Vishnevskaya, is a flat-out masterpiece, as much for Sasha
This disc offers the premiere of the complete score to Michail Tsekhanovsky’s projected animated film of Pushkin’s short story The Tale of the Priest and
If you liked Karl Weigl’s Fifth, then you’ll certainly enjoy his Sixth, though it strikes me as a marginally less interesting work overall. The music