
With grand self-confidence and having an apparently great time, the French-Sicilian tenor Roberto Alagna here presents a generous program of arias and songs taped live
Arthur Grumiaux was one of the last great violinists to treat Vieuxtemps’ concertos as musically appealing, sincere compositions and not merely as bravura vehicles. This
There’s more to Erik Satie than a collection of short piano works, cabaret songs, and eccentric anecdotes: he wrote orchestra pieces, ballets, and even an
You have to be stuck playing snare drum or triangle in the Symphonie espagnole’s finale, after six long rehearsals in as many days with a
Today’s personality-cult pianists could, if they chose, learn a tremendous amount from these performances. Clara Haskil’s 1960 Paris recordings of Mozart’s two minor-key piano concertos,
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