
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 are amazing performances. First, the coupling: so smart and
These misguided, tonally hideous performances prove that there is more
Dvorák’s Piano Concerto still suffers from a lack of compelling