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This is one red-hot Shostakovich Fourteenth. Mark Wigglesworth holds nothing in reserve as he leads a blazing account of the score, with the BBC Wales
Uli Schneider’s arrangements of Beethoven’s first two piano concertos for string quintet and piano serve little purpose other than to prove that Beethoven’s originals are
Originally issued in 1991 on the Danacord label, BIS reissues Geoffrey Douglas Madge’s Medtner Concerto cycle as a two-for-the-price-of-one CD set. Essentially, the Medtner Concerto
Call it light music, call it fluff, but you can’t deny that Fritz Kreisler’s numerous transcriptions and original works for violin continue to delight listeners
This hour-long Scriabin program traces the composer’s creative development from his youthful Chopin/Wagner influence to the self-absorbed mysticism of his later works. Twenty-five-year-old Moscow-born pianist
The immediate question is, how does this new recording of Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers measure up to the several existing versions in the catalog? These same
The new Messiah! Or so ran the breathless March, 2001 headlines trumpeting the rediscovery of Handel’s Gloria. Well, not quite. The 16-minute, seven-movement work, written
On a superficial level, you can understand why BIS selected Noriko Ogawa to launch the label’s Debussy piano music cycle. Her sonority has the kind
This interpretation of Mozart’s Quintet K.452 comes the closest to that of Murray Perahia and the ECO winds on Sony, a performance that has taken
Masaaki Suzuki’s Bach Collegium Japan has become a very respectable period band, and it faces some tough competition in this repertoire. Ryo Terakado, violin soloist
