
At her peak, pianist Annie Fischer could let loose in front of an audience in ways that her studio recordings do not consistently reveal. This
The pianists featured in this collection of archival Liszt performances
A less dry and drab acoustic might have cast Jozsef Balog’s Liszt Transcendental Etudes in a more flattering and fluent light. Yet the sonics only
Those of us who played in concert or symphonic band in high school or college most likely had the experience of playing Wagner band arrangements.
There’s really no way to “review” John Cage’s “number” pieces, since they leave so much open to chance and it’s impossible to say what they
Hungaroton makes much of the fact that Duo Egri & Pertis performs on a Pleyel Double Grand Piano, an ungainly contraption only a few examples
Who knew that Kodály composed three discs’ worth of chamber music for cello, either alone or in combination with violin or piano? This is marvelous
This disc is not a true SACD, the two works for piano and orchestra being licensed from Philips recordings made in the mid-1980s, so I
This disc of early 20th century Viennese orchestral songs seems the perfect showcase for Eva Marton, whose recordings have been intermittently successful in conveying the
Kossuth is so exciting that you really wonder why it isn’t played more often. Not much longer than Strauss’ Don Juan, and just as ebulliently