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Frank Ticheli’s Clarinet Concerto plays homage to three great American works for that instrument. Rhapsody for George begins with the famous upward-sliding clarinet intro from
The octet of musical acquaintances on this disc, who were all lured to magnificent Schloss Elmau—a luxury spa-hotel right beneath the Bavarian Alps with its
Mendelssohn is sometimes given short shrift for being a “nice”
Well, the party’s over. After a surprisingly good Mahler Fifth, François-Xavier Roth turns in a lightweight, cautious, completely nondescript live Mahler Third. Granted, the orchestra
When I heard Seong-Jin Cho perform in the final of the 2015 Chopin competition, he and his E minor concerto stood out for a “velvet
I haven’t heard a Sibelius Fifth this dull since Maurice Abravanel and the Utah Symphony on a Vanguard LP, which was my first, nearly ruinous
Jan Lisiecki seems to be staking his claim to the early romantic piano repertoire, and as his previous disc of Chopin music for piano and
Anne Queffélec never made a bad recording. Some are better
We’ve been here before. Most of the Fauré recordings contained in this 12-disc set have been reissued too many times to count. Still, for what
There have been many recordings of the three great Tchaikovsky
