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BIS’s complete edition of the late Gyorgy Ligeti’s piano music restores both of Fredrik Ullén’s single-disc Ligeti releases, respectively issued in 1996 and 1998. Ullén
This new installment of what looks to be the complete orchestral Bachianas Brasileiras is as fine as the previous one. Lest this be taken for
Viola d’amore recitals are rare, and rarer still are programs devoted to the composer Attilio Ariosti (1666-1729), one of the most prominent champions of the
There isn’t any major Sibelius here, and the program’s redundancy, both within the disc and in relation to BIS’s larger Sibelius project, makes it very
Virtuoso recorder player Dan Laurin makes a very interesting point about recent performances of The Four Seasons, citing Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s revelatory demonstration of the music’s
All listeners and critics have their own criteria for what constitutes a great Beethoven Ninth, a work so rich in content and varied in performance
On the evidence of this sensational disc, it seems clear that Sharon Bezaly is a flutist virtually without peer in the world today. The only
The angst, the tortured emotion, the relentless grinding dissonance, and dare I say it, the noise! Shostakovich’s violin sonata has to be one of the
What is going on with Neeme Järvi? Back in his “glory days”, when he was recording everything under the sun for Chandos, he offered some
This interesting disc contains more than a few Sibelius rarities well worth discovering, but let’s start with The Oceanides (a.k.a. Rondo of the Waves, in
