
What is Chandos thinking? Here we have the first volume in a new series of what will be, presumably, the complete orchestral works of Ginastera.
Some time ago Chandos dipped its toes into the world of American music, following Neeme Järvi to Detroit. That experiment met with mixed success. Now,
This disc is as beautifully planned as it is played and engineered. The two Saint-Saëns cello concertos are superb pieces–succinct, shapely, melodically memorable, passionate and
The small pieces for multiple pianists added as encores–the tiny Sonata for Piano Four-Hands, Élégie for Two Pianos, and L’Embarquement pour Cythère–add to this disc’s
Most classical music listeners tend to shy away from music
Would that today’s opera houses had a “composer in residence”
Australian composer Brett Dean’s long professional life as a violist (he served 14 years in the Berlin Philharmonic) surely explains the highly refined mastery with
Busoni scholar Antony Beaumont has had mixed success as a
In the wake of violinist Lydia Mordkovitch’s untimely death in
Record companies have to make records. Only this mundane fact accounts for Chandos’ pointless release of John Storgards and the relentlessly uninteresting BBC Philharmonic in