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There are times when you want to grab Philip Glass by the collar and shake him and shout “You’ve done the arpeggio thing already! It’s
In 1951 Yehudi Menhuin and his trusty accompanist Adolf Baller toured Japan and made the recordings reissued here, rarities all. Like his post-war performances with
Mozart’s last three quartets are very difficult to perform well. Because they were composed for the cello-playing king of Prussia, they are seriously bottom-heavy. But
Anton Dvorak’s Fourth and Fifth quartets are early works, but no less worth listening to for that. The Fourth is one of his formally “experimental”
The Joachim Trio turns in wonderful performances of the two finest piano trios written in the second half of the 19th century. The F minor
It was Heinz Holliger and friends who began the “Zelenka Renaissance,” if you can call it that, way back in the early 1970s with their
Although it’s not clear from the disc’s title, this well-conceived program features more than arias accompanied by oboe d’amore; it also contains two arias without
Sinopoli is himself a composer whose style often recalls that of Alban Berg, so it’s no surprise that he turns in a very personal, but
Even in these relatively early explorations of a developing genre, Haydn constantly pushed the string quartet form with ingenious thematic devices, surprise harmonic and melodic
