
Conventional wisdom has it that Poulenc’s Concert champêtre works best on a harpsichord, and so it does, in some ways; and yet, the piano alternative
The few original works that Beethoven left for piano duet deserve more attention than they usually get. His little two-movement D major sonata, for example,
Monodramas are tricky to pull off. The text has to be very good and the music has to be better still, to fulfill its dual
You know the intro: “You’re traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous
The more you listen to Villa-Lobos, the more it seems as though he had a giant block of characteristic music that allowed him to cut
Amid the sea of beautiful, intelligent, vigorous contemporary music, which
My colleague David Hurwitz has covered Hyperion’s ongoing Haydn cycle,
Brilliant Classics must love Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari’s two early piano trios. Within a year of releasing the Trio Archè’s CD, the label brings out these works
Mozart’s Divertimento K. 563 (in E-flat major) is incomparably the grandest and greatest string trio in the history of the universe. It stimulates just about
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Cello Concerto of 1935, written for Gregor Piatigorsky, is the Korngold Violin Concerto of Cello Concertos. If you like one, then you’ll adore