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Hearing this disc got me to thinking, which I know is probably a mistake but please bear with me. If you studied music over the
The birth and death dates for German composer Joseph Martin Kraus (1756-1792) virtually parallel those of his better-known contemporary Mozart. His multi-faceted career, largely based
Hiroshi Ohguri (1918-82) found musical inspiration in the culture of Osaka, where he spent most of his life and enjoyed the patronage of legendary (in
Rachmaninov’s Chopin Variations finds Konstantin Scherbakov operating at the top of his estimable form. The pianist never flags in the face of the music’s orchestrally
This is a disappointing release. The Swedish Chamber Orchestra certainly plays with world-class skill, but conductor Béla Drahos underplays the music to the point of
As part of its “21st Century Classics” series, Naxos turns to the music of Georges Lentz, a 38-year-old native of Luxembourg who now resides in
Aside from his career as a conductor, José Serebrier has enjoyed some success as a composer, though not as much as he probably deserves. There’s
The first two volumes in Naxos’ ongoing Tintner Memorial Edition feature fine Mozart and mediocre Schubert, and this third installment offers a bit of both
Qunihico Hashimoto (1904-49) studied with Egon Wellesz (among others) and expressed interest in the music of Krenek, Hába, and Schoenberg, and yet his own music
The four surviving piano works composed by the parsimoniously self-critical Paul Dukas deserve to be played far more frequently than they are. That is, if
