
In a celebrated and occasionally scatalogical interview published in Fanfare […]
Charles Mackerras is such a musical conductor that you can always count on his performances giving satisfaction, and these largely do. That said, when this
Emma Bell has an astonishingly beautiful, full lyric voice, inherently capable of feats of coloratura as well. This is a re-release from Linn of a
There’s so much bad Schumann around, but I have to
Chopin’s two concertos often benefit from the use of a chamber orchestra. In this recording, for example, one encounters punchier brass tuttis and leaner yet
This remarkable performance of the Brahms Violin Concerto stands among
Once past the sly title, designed to bring the word “ménage” to mind, underscored by the come-hither look of the CD cover, not to mention
Mackerras’ highly regarded Telarc Brahms cycle bills itself as being
If you’ve been around for the past 40 or so
The period performance movement has so come to dominate the