

Cédric Tiberghien’s earlier Chopin recordings sometimes teetered over that fragile line between personalized poetry and contrived mannerism. In the Op. 28 Preludes, however, the pianist

Steven Osborne almost invariably turns in thoughtful, sensitive interpretations of whatever he plays, and there are some exquisite moments throughout these performances. Consider the svelte

Those who take seriously the task of writing about music

If you happened to miss this B minor Mass release a couple of years ago as I did, and if you’re a fan of this

Cédric Tiberghien’s fine Bartók piano music cycle for Hyperion faces

The world’s ugliest string quartet is at it again, scraping

Elgar’s In the South theoretically evokes sunny Italy, but the best performances seem to come from less-than-sunny Scotland, if this excellent version and Alexander Gibson’s

Handel was fundamentally a theatrical composer, in the sense that

These misguided, tonally hideous performances prove that there is more

Dvorák’s Piano Concerto still suffers from a lack of compelling
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