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A few months ago I reviewed a different performance of La Senna; for a brief, general discussion of it, please type Q5152 in Search Reviews
Any baritone with the determination to take on Debussy’s songs must contend with the legacy of arguably their finest interpreter, Gérard Souzay. The young British
In 1999 Leslie Howard completed his 94-disc series devoted to Franz Liszt’s complete solo piano output with the proviso that previously unknown or inaccessible material
Although billed as “early” chamber music, it’s worth noting that most of this music was written between Ralph Vaughan Williams’ mid-20s (1898) and mid-30s (1906),
Nikolai Demidenko’s large-scale pianism suits Busoni’s Bach transcriptions to a tee. Listen first to the E minor prelude; you sense that Demidenko truly revels in
The title explains it all. Essentially, Robin Holloway has arranged, or more accurately, “de-ranged” Bach’s Goldberg Variations in a version for two pianos. Although he
Simply put, if you enjoy 18th-century violin music, you’ll find an hour of pure pleasure listening to this expertly played program of unusual, rarely heard
Listening to wind pieces on original instruments often can be a teeth-grating experience, as we struggle to hear the music in the face of approximate
Leopold Godowsky’s 1927 Passacaglia subjects the opening measures of Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony to 44 variations, a cadenza, and a huge fugue. There’s nothing remotely Schubertian
The Russian composer Anatoly Alexandrov (1888-1982) discovered his Scriabin-Rimsky-K-meets-Debussy-filtered-through-Medtner-and-Miaskovsky style early in his long life, rarely strayed from its lavish keyboard parameters, and ultimately lived
