
Villa-Lobos compiled 137 traditional Brazilian songs into an anthology entitled Guia Prático that later served as the basis for 11 short volumes of piano miniatures
Considering how popular some of them are, it’s startling to find oneself in agreement with Alexandre Tharaud’s rationale for devoting his first Chopin disc entirely
Have you ever stopped to think what Paganini’s violin caprices would sound like on the saxophone? Or, to be more specific, what they’d sound like
Craig Sheppard performed Bach’s Two- and Three-Part Inventions as a short concert without interruption in Seattle’s Meany Theater in April 2006. The event was recorded,
The young Italian pianist Andrea Bacchetti has garnered serious attention and high praise in the European press for his prowess with new music (he recorded
Having admirably survived Bax’s discursive piano sonatas, Ashley Wass devotes all of his third volume of this composer’s piano works to relatively smaller-scaled fare. Actually,
For his program celebrating the “twin peaks of the Romantic Ballade”, Cédric Tiberghien brackets Brahms’ Op. 10 set with Chopin’s First and Second on one
Pianist Mikhail Voskresensky first came to international attention in 1962 as Bronze Medalist in the First Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. A long international performing,
Steinway Legends’ Wilhelm Kempff survey covers just about all of the composers central to the great pianist’s repertoire in carefully chosen recordings from different stages
In this new recital recording Dutch viola da gambist Ralph Meulenbroeks deserves at least as much praise as for his earlier effort, Moved by Marais