
Kurt Atterberg was so determined to buck contemporary trends and write defiantly “Romantic”-sounding music that at times he verges on caricature. Take the first movement
Among a few other notable things, Handel was a brilliant melodist, especially adept at creating bright, happy, uplifting tunes, the kind that seem so perfect
It was Heinz Holliger and friends who began the “Zelenka Renaissance,” if you can call it that, way back in the early 1970s with their
The violin gods bestowed numerous gifts upon Michael Rabin during his brief life: an intense, penetrating sonority, a flawless bow arm, and pinpoint intonation. All
Ruggiero Ricci made the first commercial recording of Paganini’s complete Op. 1 Caprices in 1947, reissued here in a transfer effected, I wager, from an
Doremi continues to mine rare postwar Melodiya bounty, launching a series devoted to Emil Gilels. His 1947 Beethoven Third is the first of his six
Sinopoli is himself a composer whose style often recalls that of Alban Berg, so it’s no surprise that he turns in a very personal, but