
Webster’s defines “torpid” as, “(a) sluggish in functioning or acting, […]
This latest installment in Lan Shui and the Singapore Symphony’s Debussy series contain one major work (the Nocturnes), one almost major work (Printemps), and four
The Mahler parasites are at it again, feasting on the
BIS takes over from Avie presenting Andreas Haefliger’s ongoing (albeit slowly unfolding) Perspectives releases, a series that encompasses intelligent and often unexpected juxtapositions of mixed
There’s no need to spend much time on this release. One of the main premises behind the historically informed performance movement is that music of
The Mendelssohn Piano Trios live an existence in fame-limbo: not neglected but not quite part of the hard core of piano trios that the works
If, as pianist Daniel Grimwood has suggested, it is true
A student of Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg, Hans Erich Apostel (1901-1972) was a composer who was strongly influenced by visual artists of his time.
Herbert Blomstedt returns to his Swedish roots in the twilight
For decades now I’ve been listening to independent labels like BIS, who often do wonderful work, complain about the problems of producing and selling classical