
Alexander Lonquich’s Schubert playing straddles a thin line between fastidious detailing and micromanagement. The C minor D. 958 sonata’s Allegro boasts dotted rhythms that make
It’s a cliché to label small-scaled, chamber-dimensioned, period-performance-informed recordings of the Eroica as “Beethoven-lite”. But that’s exactly what Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Sinfonia Grange au
Every so often the state of Bach’s keyboard concertos—BWV 1052
The playing of the Estonian Festival Orchestra in these performances is pretty phenomenal. In the Sixth Symphony, after an aptly dark and probing opening Adagio,
This disc opens with terrific, riveting interpretations of famous Vivaldi
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This recording was originally released in 2011, but has lost none of its currency. It remains a powerfully realized conception of the work, with intense,
This is a remarkably generous, perfectly dreadful program: eighty-six minutes
I can’t imagine anyone racing out to hear this performance, particularly not with at least a dozen better ones already available. It was recorded live
The decisive and absorbing interpretive profile that Nelson Goerner brought to his 1997 EMI debut Chopin release may have softened around the edges over the