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Previous to this recent Harmonia Mundi release of Dietrich Buxtehude’s seven Op. 1 sonatas, the only other available complete recording on CD was on Marco
This set conveniently boxes up excellent performances of Vivaldi’s two most popular works. Il Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’Inventione contains not just The Four Seasons, but
Here we have four late Shostakovich song cycles juxtaposed with two of the composer’s large-scale chamber masterpieces, plus two selections from the Op. 87 Preludes
It’s impossible not to admire this latest release from Joseph Swensen and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. The Classical Symphony is marvelous: exceptionally paced, exquisitely phrased
Canadian violinist James Ehnes is a marvel. You won’t find a better Kreisler recital this side of, well, Kreisler. This disc already has garnered considerable
Little is known about the 17th-century Italian composer and violinist Ignazio Albertini (Albertino), and these 12 Sonatas for violin and continuo are his only surviving
Yuli Turovsky and I Musici de Montréal offer a very different listening experience in John Corigliano’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Second Symphony (a masterful and imaginative string-orchestra
CPO’s new Aulis Sallinen disc opens with the dark and dramatic Shadows, where the composer’s skill at mood-setting and cinematic scene-painting, as well as creating
There are many outstanding cycles of Bach’s violin sonatas, and here is another. The best in this crowded field are distinguished by proper balances–the role
Ah, memories! I vividly recall when this boring Turangalila-symphonie was released on LP, how Gramophone’s critic compared it to Esa-Pekka Salonen’s then-recent Philharmonia recording for
