
[Peter Schickele is best known as the delightfully clever musical humorist, promoter, presenter, and curator of the works of PDQ Bach, the “last and least”
Collectors who’ve resisted the thorny atonality of Ernst Krenek’s mature piano music will find his earlier works for the instrument, well, tonal and not all
Here are Telemann’s wonderful solo violin fantasias played by a modern violinist whose style is informed by period-instrument practice. Tomás Cotik favors standard modern pitch,
Having reviewed Xiaoya Liu’s brilliant edition of Carl Vine’s four piano sonatas elsewhere, I was not at all surprised by the superb technique, sensitivity, and
I’m sure that everyone asks William Mac Davis if he is the same Mac Davis who wrote “Baby, Don’t Get Hooked on Me” and “In
The third release from pianist Stephen Beus on the Centaur label offers a quirky playlist for which the topic of dance purports to be the
It takes some gumption to open a Schumann recital with the Toccata, especially if you’re a relatively young pianist staking turf alongside formidable catalog competition.
Although Artur Schnabel looked upon his composing as a hobby apart from his “day job” as one of the 20th century’s most respected pianists, many
The late Jacques Charpentier (1933-2017) was a disciple of Olivier Messiaen who shared his mentor’s interest in how the spiritual and musical substance of Indian
A Lautenwerck is a Baroque keyboard instrument with gut strings and two manuals that control different sets of quills. The larger part of the instrument’s
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