
This attractive disc collects three outstanding works for cello and piano from composers who were all contemporaries but who wrote in very different styles. All
Last time I checked, Vivaldi’s Op. 3 contained 12 concertos, but this recording, whose front-cover title “L’ESTRO ARMONICO” clearly suggests we’re getting the whole set,
Here’s one of those releases that send reviewers–and presumably anyone who has the good fortune to hear this outstanding disc–scrambling for biographical information, for some
As with her increasingly attention-getting on-stage career, with each new recording soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian shows intelligent repertoire choices and a keen awareness of her voice
Playing a gorgeously smooth-toned Hubbard & Broekman harpsichord based on the 1730s design of German instrument maker H.A. Hass, Geneviève Soly has unearthed a major
Hard on the heels of Gregory Fulkerson’s recent superb recording of these works for Bridge Records comes this equally fine but wholly different version by
First, if you love music for cello and orchestra, you’ll certainly enjoy the program and especially the spirited playing and luxurious tone of celebrated cellist,
Ah, yes, another countertenor. But wait. Before you can say David Daniels, Andreas Scholl, or Daniel Taylor, you’d better stop and listen to this. And
These are very fine performances, characteristic of the best of what the period-instrument movement has to offer in this music. Tempos are lively, rhythms are
While there may not be a whole lot of pianissimo here, there’s certainly a lot of fine piano playing by Guy Campion and Mario Vachon,