
You spend a lot of time with choirs—singing in them, conducting them, listening to them—and you gain a profound respect for what it takes to
Thierry Fischer leads the Utah Symphony in a very respectable performance of Saint-Saëns’ ever-popular but difficult to put across Third Symphony. It gets better as
Hubert Parry (1848-1918) may not have written the most original late-Romantic piano trios around, yet one cannot deny his first-rate craftsmanship and ability to wring
The four main items here are the Cuatro piezas españolas, the three movements from The Three-Cornered Hat, the suite from El amor brujo, and the
Pavel Kolesnikov begins this all-Beethoven recital with four unpublished short pieces circa 1792-1803. They are Bagatelles in spirit if not in name, and Kolesnikov molds
On hearing this, there’s an excellent chance Antoine de Févin may become your new favorite composer you’ve never heard of. The late-15th-century French composer (also
In the main, Steven Osborne channels his considerable technique and velvety sound toward textual integrity throughout Rachmaninov’s Etudes-Tableaux. In Op. 33 No. 1, for example,
Long overshadowed by his famous nephew François, Louis Couperin’s reputation has increased tenfold over the past decade or so. More harpsichordists (at least on disc)
For Bunita Marcus is late Feldman, and that means long Feldman. In this performance it lasts about seventy-two minutes, and like most of his late
I recently had an interesting exchange with a good friend