
This disc is so bad that I’m reviewing it twice, […]
What is it about Francesca da Rimini that makes it so difficult to perform successfully? I mean, it’s not rocket science. All you have to
The Bottom Line: This new Beethoven concerto cycle on Alpha looks like it’s going to be one of the major events of the Beethoven year.
Pierre Henry’s La Dixième Symphonie – Hommage à Beethoven is a work of the genre where a modern composer takes an ancient model and weaves
Here’s a recording the success of which depends entirely on how you approach it. If you think of it as a classical Lied recital that
Giuseppe Tartini has two things working against him: He’s not Vivaldi; and when acknowledged at all, he is often reduced to his Devil’s Trill Sonata
As a Beethoven fortepianist, Jos Van Immerseel never attained the
Santtu-Matias Rouvali’s new recording of Sibelius’ Second Symphony was so lousy that I felt obligated to go back to his earlier version of the First
There’s something vaguely surreal about being stuck at home during
In 2015 the 20-year-old Filippo Gorini gained international attention by winning the Telekom Beethoven Competition. He subsequently worked with Alfred Brendel and, in 2017, released