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Isabelle Faust is an excellent artist, and she turns in a winning performance of Dvorák’s sunny Violin Concerto, a work that has steadily returned to
This new Alba disc offers a generous if not exhaustive survey of Sibelius’ works for violin and piano, a combination to which the composer devoted
In 1701 the 13-year-old Johann Friedrich Fasch and 20-year-old Georg Philippe Telemann arrived in Leipzig. Fasch’s aim was to make a name for himself as
Dare I say that this must be Andrew Manze’s best disc so far? In a catalog that includes his unsurpassed, standard-setting performances of sonatas by
Besides sharing a Viennese Jewish heritage, the three composers in this collection were exact contemporaries, even if their musical styles vary widely. Hanns Eisler’s Violin
No less celebrated than Ignaz Friedman’s epic Chopin Mazurka interpretations from September, 1930 are the nine Mendelssohn Songs without Words he set down at the
Ilya Gringolts is one sensational violinist. From a purely technical point of view, the playing on offer here is nothing short of astounding. The performance
Most teenage prodigies are soon forgotten, but the legend of Joseph Hassid persists, in part because of his extraordinary virtuoso abilities, in part because of
Anyone who owns these works performed by Nils-Erik Sparf and Bengt Forsberg on BIS knows both the wonderfully flamboyant, huge-toned, scintillating, excitingly virtuosic playing by
Violinist Takako Nishizaki has a fine technique allied to good taste and sensitive all-around musicianship. She has made a career pursuing interesting and unusual repertoire,
