
There’s always room in the catalog for a beautiful new performance of this quintet. The Takács Quartet and Ralph Kirshbaum sound as though they’ve been
These are marvelous pieces. In the 19th century the history of Poland was one of partition, occupation, and war. As a result, after Chopin and
For her first Debussy recording Angela Hewitt has put together an intelligently programmed and well contrasted 80-minute recital of individual short works and suites. Opening
Marc-André Hamelin recorded what for many listeners remains the reference
The latest journey in Stephen Hough’s musical globetrotting adventures brings
There is no shortage of fine performances of this symphony
It’s not usual to encounter Robert Schumann’s works for piano and orchestra together on one disc, as is the case here. Given Angela Hewitt’s Bachian
Ernest Bloch’s two tone poems for cello and orchestra, Schelomo and Voice in the Wilderness, make logical disc mates. Stylistically they are quite similar—lusciously scored
Listening to the first four measures of the prologue to Orlando di Lasso’s Prophetiae Sibyllarum, it’s understandable that one might think “Gesualdo”, given the striking,
Heitor Villa-Lobos was a prolific though maddeningly inconsistent composer. At