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Toru Takemitsu never could get his mind around fast music; just about everything he writes is a slow wash of sound with plenty of tidal
This collection of excellent and intelligent performances of chamber music by Greek composer Nikos Skalkottas–a lesser-known disciple of Schoenberg–has one tragic flaw: the liner notes.
Osmo Vänskä is a fine conductor who always brings fresh ideas to the music he performs. Sometimes they work, and sometimes they don’t. Here they
The Violin Concerto No. 2 is an early work, composed in 1858 when Saint-Saëns was but 23 years of age and before he developed his
This is exactly the sort of project a fine independent label like BIS should not do, even if someone else pays for it (and especially
Miguel Baselga’s third installment in his ongoing complete Albéniz cycle for BIS falls slightly short of the excellences that impressed me in Volume 2. In
As is often the case with recordings of avant-garde music it is probably best to skip the liner notes and go right to the music.
The Norwegian composer/pianist Agathe Backer Grøndahl (1847-1907) was highly esteemed by her contemporaries both in Norway and on the continent. A contemporary of Edvard Grieg,
The idiom on display here stands squarely in the neo-classical tradition, a sort of Italianate Poulenc or Kurt Weill (from the period of the Second
Freddy Kempf has strong ideas about how Chopin’s Ballades should go, yet problems occur when these ideas don’t correspond to what Chopin wanted. This is
