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Among the individual discs encompassing Paul Badura-Skoda’s fortepiano Mozart sonata cycle, the present volume is one of the strongest. The pianist takes full advantage of
The Paul Badura-Skoda/Mozart partnership on disc harkens back to the mono LP days. It most visibly resurfaced in the early 1990s when the pianist recorded
The premise of this experimental and novel recording of the complete Bach Flute Sonatas rests on the rather flimsy historical argument that, based on the
Although in Antonio Salieri’s time there was no controversy about his competence as a composer, today our opinion of this one-time teacher of such luminaries
Fortepiano fanciers will enjoy the compact sonority of Leslie Tung’s five-octave instrument, a modern replica of a 1795 Jean-Louis Dulcken model. Tung’s refreshingly quick and
Haydn’s flute trios of 1790 are exhilarating, but at fractionally under 55 minutes’ total playing time you’d need good reasons for paying over the odds
Several Haydns are on display here, although all of these works bear the unmistakable grace (and signature) of Franz Joseph. The first Haydn churns out
Harald Hoeren follows up his previous Johann Christian Bach recital devoted to the composer’s six Op. 5 Sonatas with the composer’s more mature Op. 17
Perhaps through all the down-scaling going on at major record companies, song-recitalists will prove to be the most fortunate, what with their relatively inexpensive production
The HIP-ster (historically informed practice) qualifications of these players are legion and well-documented–you’ll find the names of violinist/Sonnerie director Monica Huggett and her colleagues on
