
Cuban composer Leo Brouwer occupies an interesting niche in the […]
George Crumb returns to his favorite poet, Lorca, for the
Paul Lansky is best known as a successful and innovative creator of electronic music, and I say this as someone who normally detests that particular medium.
No qualms about the performances: Javier Calderón is a fine guitarist and he plays this very attractive four-movement work for solo plus strings extremely well.
One of the more intriguing and stimulating niche-bender projects, An Evening in the Village re-imagines several works of Béla Bartók as played by bluegrass band.
Boccherini fans will be unable to conceal a twinge of disappointment that the selection of repertoire for this disc wasn’t more adventurous; but on the
There’s nothing like success, and heaven knows Anonymous 4 has seen its share over the years. One of the early music-specialist group’s biggest hits was
The booklet accompanying this release reproduces each of the Goya etchings that inspired the 24 individual pieces within Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s solo-guitar suite, 24 Caprichos de
In the notes for this excellent program, guitarist/composer Vojislav Ivanovic describes “the Balkans” as “a dividing line between East and West, an exciting crossroad of
You might say that Mauro Giuliani’s (1781-1829) arrangement of almost two hours of Rossini’s Semiramide, one of the composer’s most complicated scores, is an exercise