
The Mark O’Connor/Yo-Yo Ma/Edgar Meyer power trio took a while to follow up their 1996 hit Appalachia Waltz, yet, no doubt about it, Appalachian Journey
Eugène Ysaÿe heard his younger colleague Joseph Szigeti perform one of the Bach solo sonatas, after which the two violinists discussed the lack of major
This entry in Klavier’s Wind Recording Project Series presents quite a fascinating and diverse group of compositions for winds. The bright, cheerful Aegean Festival Overture
One of the biggest joys of reviewing recordings is that it lately has enabled me to hear a lot of music by Georg Philipp Telemann;
Recent reissues featuring violinist Josef Suk have helped edge this musician back into his well-deserved limelight. Purity of tone and sobriety of interpretive outlook characterize
This excellent CD presents a triptych of contemporary elegies in performances that seem definitive. The Fantasia by Marjan Mozetich is the most accessible and arresting
Leila Josefowicz says in her booklet note for this release that her “tone is everything”. Indeed, it is her tone that impresses most on this
Yehudi Menuhin was still in his teens when he made the first complete recordings of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for HMV. While Menuhin remade the
The four works included on this CD were composed in the very short (for a composer) time-span of 12 months, during 1990-91. Although they are
What a treat to have two colorful concertos by Miklós Rózsa on the same CD, captured in state-of-the art sound! Robert McDuffie plays the rhapsodic