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Having spent the past couple of days lining up reviews […]
The fourth volume of what promises to be a complete Chopin piano music survey from Louis Lortie contains five nocturnes and the 19 waltzes. Lortie
This disc marks the start of a new edition of Ives’ orchestral music, and does so solidly, if not spectacularly. Andrew Davis, always musical if
There’s a very wide expressive range between the bright and
Petrushka began life as a “concert piece” for piano and orchestra before morphing into the ballet that we all know and love, and that is
Many pianists ruminate over the introductory section of Schumann’s Humoreske, but not Imogen Cooper, who doesn’t mistake the Einfach (easy) tempo indication for somber. Instead,
Joachim Raff’s symphonies have a reputation as being diffuse, bloated,
It’s not easy to make Rachmaninov’s prolix First Sonata cohere, yet not impossible. For example, Alexis Weissenberg’s gaunt tone, febrile temperament, and paragraphic sweep give
No sooner did Barry Douglas undertake a Brahms cycle for Chandos than he begins this one devoted to Schubert, starting with the last sonata and
First some housekeeping. This version of the suite from The Cunning LIttle Vixen is allegedly the “final” edition prepared by Charles Mackerras, consisting largely of
