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The young Beijing-based pianist Jin Ju came to international attention in October 2009 when she played an internationally telecast concert from the Vatican in the
The general impression this disc makes is, well, strange. There’s no question that the Leipzig Quartet plays very well, but there’s a pervasive flaccidity in
Each of the eight movements comprising Richard Emsely’s for piano 1 (this composer prefers to spell out his titles in the lower case) are made
Most classical music lovers know Amilcare Ponchielli as the composer of La Gioconda but have no idea that he wrote some really delightful, entertaining, and
As with previous volumes in his Brahms piano music cycle, Hardy Rittner utilizes excellently restored period instruments. One is a Johann Baptist Streicher salon grand
There is probably no orchestra less suited to this repertoire than the Beethoven Orchestra of Bonn. Has it ever made an outstanding recording of standard
This strange collection, wonderfully engineered though it is, consists of a mishmash of items of varying quality. Tasso, though a touch on the slow side,
Hearing the three dramatic chords that open the Zauberharfe overture played by this excellent Swiss orchestra (the oldest in Switzerland) I was immediately struck by
These very early Philip Glass works date from the late 1960s, well before the composer entered into mainstream culture with his operas and movie scores.
Before radio and recordings came along it was more-or-less standard practice to make orchestral works available in four-hand piano arrangements for home use. Publishing companies
