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What an imaginative program Marc-André Hamelin has assembled: jazz-inspired works that are virtuosic like nobody’s business and totally fun to listen to. Certainly the pianist
Canadian baritone Gerald Finley was justly lauded for his earlier recital of songs by another American composer, Charles Ives (click here to read review), and
This aptly titled disc brings together 19 works sung at St. Paul’s during September 11 memorial services in 2001 and 2002 and at a service
Recordings of cathedral services often prove disappointing as concert programs because, well, that’s not what the sequence of service music, psalms, responses, and anthems are
Poulenc’s a cappella motets are such great pieces it’s unfortunate that we don’t hear them sung (or recorded) more often. It’s not that more choirs
This is far and away the best program of Ives songs currently available, 31 of them, lasting slightly more than 70 minutes. Most of them
It’s only (almost) February, but I’m certain that come December 31st, this recording will still be at or near the top of my list of
As the piano came into its own in the mid-19th century, the Vienna-born/French-based Henri Herz (1803-1888) all but dominated the scene as a brilliant virtuoso,
Dvorák’s two early trios are less popular than the F-minor and Dumky because they supposedly reflect a certain immaturity with respect to handling of form,
Steven Isserlis first recorded Brahms’ cello sonatas for Hyperion in the mid-1980s with Peter Evans at the piano, in sensitive, forthright, and excellently engineered interpretations.
