
The second volume of Avanti Classic’s “Rendez-vous with Martha Argerich” series offers performances from the 2019 Hamburg Festival featuring the legendary pianist in chamber and
In the years following his death in 1945, Anton Webern’s
Please allow me to present ALDA, The Avoid Like Death Awards. These are sort of the evil twin to The Keep On Listening Awards (KOLA),
Judging from this Schubert release, the Fitzwilliam String Quartet has become infected with period instrument disease. It’s one thing to project the outsize dynamic contrasts
This twelve CD set contains some remarkably poorly chosen titles
Carl Czerny’s reputation as an industrious creator of piano exercises overshadows his equally prolific compositional output, including these previously unrecorded epic-length piano duet fantasies inspired
Since countless world-class Beethoven quartet cycles crowd the catalog, the proverbial bar invariably ascends with each new contender. Purely on a technical level, the Dover
What varied and interesting piano duet repertoire we have here! The Melodias rüsticas portuguesas by Fernando Lopes-Graca (1906-1994) transform catchy folk melodies into charming miniatures
Dmitri Klebanov (1907-87) was a composer of seriousness and substance, as the few discs devoted to him available thus far (most spectacularly ESS.A.Y’s gorgeous versions
La Belle Époque encompasses a time period between the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71) and the outbreak of World War I (1914) when the French composers represented