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The young Japanese pianist Mao Fujita (he turns 22 in 2020) first came to my attention when he won first prize in the 2017 Clara
Morton Gould’s Symphonettes from the 1930s and ’40s are quintessential examples of his “crossover” style. They bear out Gould’s natural and unpretentious flair for fusing
French composer Louise Farrenc (1804-1875) was every bit as gifted as any of the second-tier musicians of her day. Her First Symphony (1841) reveals skilled
The more you listen to Villa-Lobos, the more it seems as though he had a giant block of characteristic music that allowed him to cut
Here’s a very promising start to what I assume will be a new Beethoven piano concerto cycle, featuring performances not otherwise included in Naxos’ “complete”
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Cello Concerto of 1935, written for Gregor Piatigorsky, is the Korngold Violin Concerto of Cello Concertos. If you like one, then you’ll adore
In Sanctuary Road, Paul Moravec together with librettist Mark Campbell have created a moving and topical oratorio based on William Still’s 1872 chronicle The Underground
Naxos’ more-or-less chronological survey of Fritz Kreisler’s complete Victor and
Mak Grgić’s guitar artistry resists pigeonholing. His previous two CDs were respectively devoted to film-inspired music and works employing various tuning systems. Grgić now turns
Here’s a terrific disc for record collectors looking to complete their collections of Saint-Saëns’ orchestral music. The ballet from Act III of Ascanio is typical
