
Timings ought not be a harbinger of performance quality, yet Igor Do Amaral’s unusually protracted ones throughout Alkan’s Symphony for Solo Piano give fair warning.
In my earlier James Brawn “Beethoven Odyssey” reviews I’ve often likened the pianist’s crisp articulation, lean textures, and linear orientation to interpreters such as Claude
Robert Mueller (born 1958) is a frequently awarded and commissioned composer who teaches at the University of Arkansas, and conducts the university’s symphony orchestra. He
In 2019 Andrew Smith and Joshua Pierce presented “Hidden in
Imagine landing in Oaxaca, where a rhapsodic alto saxophonist and sultry pianist serenade you with an expansive, loosely knit, multi-thematic waltz. You’ve just heard Arrullo
Back in the pre-recording and pre-radio days, if you wanted to hear new orchestral works without traveling to symphonic concerts, you simply had to play
It comes as no surprise that this anthology of piano pieces by Filipino composers born between 1846 and 1895 is dominated by the influence of
Except for York Bowen, the composers featured on this disc of 20th-century horn sonatas may not be familiar to general collectors. I had never heard
Todd Crow may not be a household name, yet many of his colleagues consider him to be a pianist’s pianist, whose cultivated artistry deserves wider
Conductor Lance Friedel already gave us a fine Nielsen program for MSR Classics, and there’s no question he “gets” Bruckner’s Fifth. This in itself is