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Your guide to classical music online
It’s a great time to be a piano fan, and anyone who feels that all of the great artists are dead really needs a reality
String quartets playing on “authentic” instruments today face a most inauthentic situation. Performers in Haydn’s day had a simple goal: make as beautiful a sound
Ivan Fischer’s Beethoven Seventh surely ranks with the best among recent performances. The first-movement introduction isn’t too slow, and the allegro is a delightful romp
This is a really pleasant recital that easily encourages repeated listening–and inspires expressions of gratitude that Channel Classics has done what no one else has
Do Scarlatti and Bartók mesh? In theory they might, since each composer’s keyboard miniatures not only draw heavily from folkloric elements but also approach virtuosity
Fans of this endlessly fascinating composer can never get enough, and happily this disc offers what by any standard amounts to the perfect Revueltas “fix”.
If you haven’t heard of the Comedian Harmonists–the six-man vocal group (five singers and a pianist) formed in Berlin in 1927 and forced to disband
This is Pieter Wispelwey’s second recording of the Dvorák concerto for Channel Classics, and it’s a very good one. Both of his versions were recorded
The delightful titles of so many of Rossini’s piano works suggest that they are all lightweight predecessors of Satie, but his Album de Château contains
Where have Karol Szymanowski’s songs been hiding all these years? True, his Songs of the Fairy Princess Op. 31 are relatively familiar in their orchestral
