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Shostakovich wrote a lot of light music but not necessarily a lot of great light music. The Jazz Suite No. 2 (compiled by others) is
This attractive three-disc set claims to present the “complete” overtures and tone poems, and it does nothing of the kind. What it does offer is
What can you get for $22 these days? Well, in New York City that would buy you two movie tickets and maybe a candy bar.
When it comes to this music, how the quartet plays technically is just as important as what it does interpretively, and I very much like
The 15-year-old Mozart composed Lucio Silla for Milan. Set in Rome in the decades B.C., it concerns the despot Lucio Silla, his love for Giunia
Pianist Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy masters Brahms’ cruelly difficult Paganini Variations to the point where he downplays the music’s burly bravura by choice rather than necessity. He
Billed as a “first attempt” to present together “all of Schumann’s works for mixed chorus, women’s chorus, and male chorus”, this 4-CD set also includes
Only a tiny handful of the nearly two dozen works here actually bear the title “concerto”. The others are sinfonias and sonatas, but all feature
Looking for Brahms’ solo piano music in first rate, well-recorded performances at super-budget price? Then consider this boxed set, featuring five pianists. Some of the
Like most didactic piano etudes, Carl Czerny’s The Art of Finger Dexterity Op. 740 holds negligible musical interest. Still, it’s good that budding piano students
