
The late Raymond Lewenthal was a founding father of the Romantic Revival in the 1960s. He dusted the cobwebs off long-neglected chestnuts by 19th century
This collection of feisty, vibrant, gutsy, and overall brilliant string quartets is sure to blow away anyone’s impression of chamber music as stuffy or tedious.
Martinu’s brilliant and witty double piano concerto belongs to a long list of his works unaccountably neglected in today’s concert halls. Composed in 1943 during
Norman Dello Joio (b. 1913) has lived his professional life through all the major (and minor) movements in American music, but his predilections lie staunchly
Although he composed some 70 piano pieces, the reputation of the Mexican composer Carlos Chávez (1899-1978) almost entirely relies on his orchestral music, notably the
Given his two highly distinctive recordings of the Rachmaninov Third Concerto, Santiago Rodriguez serves up a surprisingly disappointing Second. The pianist underplays the music’s sweeping
With the changes that occurred in musical life between the two World Wars came the gradual disappearance of virtuoso pianists who composed and performed their