This is a recording that makes me wish I had scores at hand while listening. These four works, written by Latvian composer Eriks Ešenvalds between
It’s been a while since pianist Sang Woo Kang graced the Naxos catalog with a disc of short Mozart works. He returns to the label’s
Prior to the invention of the phonograph, the piano was
Franz Berwald’s Violin Concerto begins with a very Schubertian andante, literally at a walking pace, with that master’s characteristic melodic turns in the second theme.
Whenever the words “among the most frequently performed” are used in a description of a contemporary choral composer, we usually can expect (if the claim
It’s about time that Dvořák’s fascinating and gripping Fourth Quartet got some individual attention apart from big boxes of the chamber works. A single movement
George Antheil started his career writing wild and crazy works that went all over the place, and often presaged modernists who came after him, as
James Sinclair is always an excellent guide to this music,
Serious and substantial piano works from the 20th century’s second half by lesser known composers are plentiful–you just have to seek them out. Consider, for
You simply have to hear this. Alfredo Casella’s Suite, Op.