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There have been a surprising number of distinguished performances of Martinu’s three excellent cello sonatas, most notably by the late pianist Rudolf Firkusný and cellist
I love the sound this quartet makes: they really dig into the strings with a gutsy, rich, but still smooth sound that, allied to dead
Zez Confrey’s ingenuous jazz-age keyboard concoctions deserve as much attention and respect as Gershwin’s less prolific solo output, to say nothing of the great Harlem
Certainly the idea for this program made perfect sense: a compilation of intermezzos, mostly from operas, most having familiar themes, and which by their nature
Swedish Romantic composer Franz Berwald was largely neglected during his lifetime, being forced to make a living as a skilled orthopedic surgeon while writing music
Something about a recording of 18th-century lute music (or 17th or 16th, for that matter) just lulls you into a sort of reverie–a “fanciful musing”–after
Penderecki’s Symphony no. 5 is a significant advance over No. 3, which was presented in Vol. 1 of Naxos’ series devoted to the composer’s orchestral
Those who only know Krzysztof Penderecki from his avant-garde works of the 1960s will be surprised by his Symphony No. 3, composed in 1988-95. One
These live Beethoven performances can be subtitled “A Tale of Two Toscaninis”. At first hearing, this 1942 New York Philharmonic broadcast transcription of the Triple
Franz Liszt viewed his solo piano transcriptions of the Beethoven Symphonies as a means to disseminate these works and make them accessible to the general
