
Volume 19 in Naxos’ series devoted to Liszt’s complete piano music brings Konstantin Scherbakov’s Beethoven/Liszt Symphony cycle two-thirds of the way toward completion, with only
It’s a mystery why David Diamond has not been generally acclaimed as one of the top handful of American symphonists. His Third Symphony has everything:
David Lloyd-Jones’ new Bax Sixth is especially welcome since the only other modern recording is available only as part of a complete set of symphonies
As you might suspect from the printed timings, Idil Biret’s recordings of Ligeti’s Etudes Books One and Two are noticeably slower than those by Pierre-Laurent
While Volume 26 of Naxos’ continuing series of Haydn symphonies centers firmly in the composer’s so-called “Stürm und Drang” period, these major-key works are neither
For all its rhythmic propulsion and caustic surface style, Prokofiev’s solo piano writing contains more beauty and lyricism than many pianists let on. Happily, Bernd
Working in the interest of completeness, the Kodály Quartet presents a disc of early “Haydn” quartets of which two (Op. 3) are now believed to
Nicolas Flagello is a bona fide card-carrying “neglected American composer”. Despite the dogged efforts of conductor David Amos (who has recorded several of his works)
It wasn’t very long ago that CD reissues of Erna Berger were hard to come by–but three have been released in the past year. I’d
Karl Muck’s generally straightforward, fleet, and lightly textured Wagner conducting will strike today’s listeners as remarkably modern for a musician born in 1859. Compare for