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In her personal comments included in this disc’s liner notes, violinist Rachel Barton Pine laments the fact that, although they used to be concert staples
In the early days of CDs and digital recording it was always something worth noting when, as a reviewer you heard something that sounded exactly
The Bottom Line: This stylish, elegant Beethoven cycle, immaculately recorded, stands with the best. You simply can’t argue with the quality of the playing or
Debussy’s String Quartet is, of course, standard fare, and it usually appears in tandem with the Ravel and something else French. Not here. Instead, we
On the grounds of Prague’s ancient Vyšehrad Castle, high above the right bank of the Vltava river, is a cemetery. Not an “ordinary” one, but
[In memorial tribute to composer Kaija Saariaho (October 14, 1952-June 2, 2023) we offer this re-post from our archives.] Imagine the modern performer. In the
The stories in question here are wide-ranging, often concerned with issues of social justice and racial intolerance which, however noble in concept, can’t really be
Occasionally you hear a commentator use the term “accessible” to describe a musical work or style. Yet, as with other terms such as “affordable” in
These are two major works, all but unknown: big, serious, superbly written and (here) superbly played and recorded. Ernst Bacon is best known for his
Since countless world-class Beethoven quartet cycles crowd the catalog, the proverbial bar invariably ascends with each new contender. Purely on a technical level, the Dover
