
Early music lovers certainly are lucky these days. The variety and high standards of performance and the equally fine production values of many of the
“Haydn and the Harp” is a delightful disc of music
“The Melancholic Bach” brings together bits and pieces from Johann Sebastian’s output–excerpted, newly combined, and arranged for viola da braccio and harpsichord–which exude, more or
There’s nothing more heartbreaking in surveying the current state of
If you’ve heard enough Beethoven and want to switch it
The idea of Verdi’s Macbeth (in the original, dramatically taut
Frans Brüggen’s early 1990s Beethoven symphony recordings for Philips offered
For some performers these days, rendering of Bach’s choral works comes down to a numbers game: from the most basic cantata to the most elaborate
Not unlike many other composers of his era, Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787) was remarkably prolific and highly esteemed in his time, though he’s all but
Under the work’s title, in small print on the CD slip-case, we find the words “Intermezzi: Ron Ford (2004)”. This made me nervous. For some