
This recording of Dvorak’s Cello Concerto was recorded live at the Stockholm Konserthus in the November, 1967. Almost from the outset the mood is set
Alexandre Tansman (1897-1986) was born and educated in Poland and in his youth had the great good fortune to travel to Paris where he became
Although Vivaldi’s six sonatas for cello and continuo share the same slow-fast-slow-fast four-movement form, don’t presume that they’re fashioned from the same cookie cutter. Anner
I’ve awaited this Beethoven sonata cycle from Simca Heled and Simone Dinnerstein with considerable expectations, which by and large have been met. Heled is marginally
This disc combines world premiere recordings of the three cello sonatas by Beethoven’s friend and pupil Ferdinand Ries. As the booklet note asserts, it is
An army of generals, equally fit to plan a battle as to fight one was how musical diarist and traveller Dr. Charles Burney described the
Edward MacDowell (1860-1908), an exact contemporary of Gustav Mahler, was widely considered the most important American composer of his day–a time when American music was
Getting straight to the point, this release offers hard-driven, unyielding performances of Schubert’s trios that generally fail to engage the emotions. These performers should have
One famous American violinist described Yehudi Menuhin’s playing to me as an example of “mind over reality.” This sadly applies to this 1963 Bach E
Once again Naxos pulls a rabbit out of its hat with this gorgeous release of Alan Rawsthorne’s music (with two world premieres yet). Rawsthorne (1905-71)