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The great Donald Francis Tovey summarized everything that is wrong […]
Pianist Bobby Mitchell first came to my attention via his YouTube channel, which offers invigorating performances of Rzewski’s “The People United Will Never Be Defeated”
Pygmalion is a Paris-based choir and period-instrument orchestra founded by
It’s been awhile since we’ve seen a new–and expertly done–recording of these iconic Vivaldi works, known since their first appearance in print under the title
This Shostakovich Fourteenth ideally captures the music’s edgy, mournful, and beatific moods. Bass Piotr Migunov sounds appropriately ghostly in De Profundis, and delightfully rude in
Charles Avison was a remarkably influential composer, conductor, organist, teacher, and writer on music in England (and specifically London) during the 18th century. These string
This disc pays eloquent tribute to the duck-billed platypus of the Baroque period, the “claviorganum”–half-harpsichord, half-organ. How does it sound? Well, exactly like a harpsichord
The harpsichord isn’t the most ingratiating instrument to listen to for long periods, but when you hear one that’s well-made–full-bodied, with a resonance that’s complementary
Eric Le Sage continues his ongoing complete Schumann cycle in fine form. In the eight Novelletten, the pianist’s supple, scurrying treatment of the Sixth, and
Vladimir Horowitz wondered if an instrument of Chopin’s time was better suited to that composer’s music than a modern concert grand with its relatively heavier
