You have to listen very closely to fully appreciate how difficult these pieces are to perform: lutenist Paul O’Dette just makes them sound so easy!
It would seem that the distinctive sound of French orchestras was vanishing even 20 years ago when this recording was made. You’d hardly be able
Philippe Herreweghe directs these Schumann concertos with severity and urgency, with an impact that’s particularly strong in the opening movement of the A minor piano
This recording was made during January 1978, at Palaja, Carcassonne, and remains a fine introduction to the polyphonic choral music of Marc-Antoine Charpentier. The Leçons
This recording of Pierre Boulez’s Domaines for solo clarinet and 21 instruments dates from 1971. The performers are clarinetist Michel Portal and members of Ensemble
You’ll often find Brahms’ Op. 115 Clarinet Quintet coupled with the Op. 34 Piano Quintet in F minor, so this pairing with the Quintet for
This disc offers a nicely engineered Art of Fugue with cogent and skilled playing from Davitt Moroney, culminating with his own conjectural realization of the
The producers of this superbly played program, packed full of exciting moments, made a sonic decision that seems at odds with the character of the
Now that Rachmaninov’s Third piano concerto has become an unshakeable competition staple, we can expect (and have been getting) performances like this one whose virtues
Just when the time seemed more than judicious for Anonymous 4 to look beyond the fertile yet increasingly familiar chant repertoire by which the amazing