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Peter Schickele is best known to most people as the creator of P. D. Q. Bach, or as Pete Schickele, master of ceremonies on the
What more do you say about a musician who’s already stormed and conquered the world of Baroque violin repertoire and performance? About to embark on
Franz Schubert’s string quartets span his entire creative life. The first was composed when he was only 13 years old, and the last (actually the
Beethoven composed his Op. 1 piano trios under the shadow of Haydn. The younger composer’s personality, though, was squarely intact. You already get those sudden
The teenaged Yehudi Menuhin’s Bach concerto recordings were first transferred to CD by EMI in the late 1980s and have also surfaced on numerous independent
It makes stylistic, chronological, and musical sense to pair Debussy and Ravel’s sole string quartets on disc. Both works represent early, fully-formed manifestations of each
These ageless performances have been wonderfully remastered using 24-bit technology, which gives even more clarity, depth, and detail to the already excellent 1973-74 recordings. Itzhak
Non-keyboardists increasingly lay claim to Bach’s Goldberg Variations on disc, from string trios and cimbalom duos, to guitar renditions and synthesizer blowouts. The challenge to
First the good news: Yehudi Menuhin and Wanda Landowska’s powerfully inflected Bach E major Sonata, recorded in 1945, has never sounded better on disc. Andrew
At 75, the American composer, conductor, and scholar Gunther Schuller is one of the world’s most hyperactive musicians. These three chamber music works show him
