
Paul Lewis certainly knows how he wants these four Haydn sonatas to go. His large-scaled interpretations abound with sophisticated degrees of nuance, inflection, and dynamic
The reason to buy this set is for the Magnificat, the original but rarely recorded E-flat version from 1723, which certainly gets its most exciting
Popular as they were as features of Handel’s London performances–notably
Is there ever a wrong time to listen to the
Two cantatas, one secular, one sacred, each concerned in very different ways with respect for one who has died, show how Bach treated musically the
Violinist Tai Murray can legitimately boast just a third-degree separation from the composer of these solo violin sonatas: one of her teachers, Yuval Yaron, was
Lukas Foss composed his first piano concerto originally for clarinet while studying with Hindemith at Tanglewood and at Yale. The work was rewritten for piano
There haven’t been so many recordings of these two magnificent works that it means as much as it should to say that this is the
Conductors coming to the Fauré Requiem have choices: The original, 1888 version with only five movements of the eventual seven and very minimal instrumentation; the
For ordinary people who are not violinists—or for violinists who may be just ordinary—imagining what talent, what dedication, what effort, what sheer will it would