
It was a cute idea: for the centenary of the […]
Hans Pfitzner’s Beethoven Symphony recordings, to put it charitably, are
With the advent of electrical recording, the German firm Polydor
Given the fact that Koussevitzky commissioned Ravel’s famous orchestration of
Zdenek Fibich only lived to be 50, but he was
As the excellently written notes to this release point out,
Marin Alsop’s Prokofiev cycle with the São Paulo Symphony began disappointingly with the Fifth, improved dramatically with the Fourth, and now hits its stride with
Vasily Petrenko’s generally sensational Shostakovich cycle concludes with this powerful and gripping performance of the Thirteenth Symphony. The interpretation is full of distinctive touches: the
Here’s a fine way to plug a hole in your
The fourth installment in Naxos’ Soler keyboard sonata cycle introduces 25-year-old pianist Mateusz Borowiak, who has begun to make a name for himself on the