
These brilliant, hard-driving performances bring back (happy) memories of Russian […]
The playing here is just beautiful—and you can hear it
Poor Vaccaj—if his life span had not coincided with Bellini, Rossini, and Donizetti he might not have been eclipsed. Now he’s mostly remembered—if at all—for
Here’s a way to tell if a performance of Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra is likely to be an outstanding one right from the start. Listen
There are some pieces for which you want to have a score handy if you’re going to listen to them at all. Shostakovich’s Second Symphony
Portuguese composer Fernando Lopes-Graça (1908-93) is a difficult composer to pigeon-hole. His symphony in particular starts off a bit like Honegger’s First (sound clip below),
Chinese violinist Tianwa Yang has distinguished herself mightily with this
These performances, originally recorded in 1988/89, are interesting more for
This disc contains the quasi-politically incorrect (depending on how sensitive
The only complaint one can register about these Seattle Symphony