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The New Haydn Quartet departs from the usual in its second well-recorded disc of Tchaikovsky string quartets. Whereas many cycles customarily include the Souvenir de
In many respects Rachmaninov’s Second and Third Concertos are orchestral showpieces that happen to have big and difficult piano parts. More often than not, the
Oscar Fried’s Ninth is unquestionably the crown jewel of Polydor’s generally mediocre Beethoven Symphony cycle issued in the late 1920s and early ’30s. Recorded in
This generous CD of excerpts from Verdi’s Il trovatore is very good indeed. It contains more than half of the opera, comprising both of Leonora’s
Naxos appears to be surveying Scriabin’s piano works by genre, and assigning a different pianist at each post, so to speak. The Russian pianist Evgeny
So, the debate over how many singers and players to a part in Bach’s cantatas lives on. This time, it’s another vote for the Joshua
Elly Ameling, Dawn Upshaw, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Christoph Prégardien, Fritz Wunderlich, and countless other singers to varying degrees have traversed Schubert’s monumental collection of songs (nearly
Even though American composer Arthur Foote (1853-1937) lived well into the 20th century, his music is definitely a product of 19th century Romanticism, particularly German
It might seem odd that the main work on a disc featuring works of Purcell probably was not even written by the great 17th-century English
Despite a long musical career, almost all of Joseph Joachim’s compositions are early works, steeped in the conservative style of Schubert and Schumann. For years
