
These pieces from Luigi Dallapiccola’s prime have a glittering, caressing beauty that masks an extraordinary musical mind. Dallapiccola (1904-75) arguably was the most remarkable of
By and large, the idiomatic flair and impressive facility distinguishing Xiayin Wang’s Naxos Scriabin release informs her Rachmaninov playing. She brings plenty of power and
Neeme Järvi always has had a habit of adopting swift tempos, but lately he seems to be taking this to the point of mania: witness
This was one of Chandos’ earliest digital recordings, and one
The period performance movement has so come to dominate the
At one point Chandos had two, count ’em, two Martinu
This is Debussy in the great French tradition, the sort
These things—meaning whole programs of so-called “encores”—are fundamentally pointless: after
Wagner’s Symphony in C is such a piece of junk
Johan Halvorsen is one of those composers whose music will have you asking why it’s not part of the standard repertoire. It’s that good. His