
This performance of Dido and Aeneas was recorded before conductor Teodor Currentzis’ three Mozart/da Ponte operas, but it has just been released in the United
The programming is wonderful: three symphonies, one overture, and Haydn’s
Whatever would possess a gifted young boy to choose to study the harpsichord? Something about the instrument attracted 11-year-old Justin Taylor who went on to
Stravinsky’s two-piano transcription of his 1928 chamber concerto Dumbarton Oaks is seldom performed, for one simple reason: it’s dull. On the piano, Stravinsky’s colorful instrumental
As in his previous Beethoven/Liszt symphony recordings, Yury Martynov approaches the Ninth like piano music rather than as a piano transcription of an orchestral score,
This is the second release in the Basel-based Joseph Haydn Stiftung Foundation’s collaboration with Alpha in recording all of Haydn’s 107 symphonies, to be completed
This release has a lot going for it. First, there
There’s nothing particularly wrong with these performances, but honestly, do we really need them? Pianist Anna Vinnitskaya has nimble fingers, and in the First Concerto
This set actually includes more than concertos: you get the
Beethoven’s last three sonatas come vividly alive in the hands