
Oh where, oh where has that Surinach gone? Oh where, oh where can it be? Here we have one-and-a-half Alicia de Larrocha albums: the whole
This seven-disc collection commemorates pianist Alicia de Larrocha’s 80th birthday and retirement from the concert stage with an overview of her Decca recordings from the
This is not going to be an “objective” review, because I specifically asked that Australian Eloquence issue this compilation for the express purpose of bringing
This is the strangest collection of “favourites” from G&S I’ve ever encountered, and as such has a certain value that other collections do not. When
Hyperion’s Bantock recordings have been justly celebrated as burnishing (at least somewhat) the image of a very important turn-of-the-century English composer. There is some wonderful
Franz Clement’s name has come down to us as the dedicatee of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, but a year previously, in 1805, he wrote his own
André Previn recorded an excellent “London Symphony” for RCA as part of his complete cycle of Vaughan Williams symphonies, and although conventional wisdom holds that
Altough not as comprehensive as Placido Domingo’s Verdi aria collection on DG, Carlo Bergonzi’s less exhaustive Philips survey is greatly satisfying in its own right.
It’s a national disgrace that there hasn’t been a complete cycle of the symphonic music of William Grant Still. It’s disgraceful not because Still was
It’s good to see this disc back in print courtesy of Arkivmusic.com’s “on demand” program. Claus Peter Flor leads a sober, “Germanic” performance of Franck’s