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Silvius Leopold Weiss (1687-1750) wrote approximately 83 billion lute sonatas, and this release constitutes Volume 11 in Naxos’ ongoing complete series. The tray card describes
Edvard Grieg’s G minor string quartet sounds terrific in this sensitive arrangement for string orchestra by Alf Ardal. The truth is that the work has
No qualms about the performances: Javier Calderón is a fine guitarist and he plays this very attractive four-movement work for solo plus strings extremely well.
Stéphane Denève’s Roussel recordings for Naxos are far and away the most comprehensively satisfying in the catalog. This final installment provides a worthy and memorable
A few years ago I was accompanist for a performance of a work by Howard Blake–a song cycle for children’s voices called All God’s Creatures,
These are attractive, elegant works in a somewhat generic classical style, with singing opening allegros employing triadic themes, touching slow movements with some minor-key inflections,
Putting all of Debussy’s works for solo and orchestra together on a single disc is smart programming, even if it makes for somewhat short playing
It’s well known that the vast majority of what have come down to us as Bach’s Harpsichord Concertos were originally written for violin, oboe, oboe
Ludvig Irgens-Jensen’s Passacaglia of 1928, music of unaffected grandeur and nobility, is one of the monuments of the Scandinavian orchestral repertoire. It receives a powerful
So close, yet so far. Hans Graf leads an expertly paced, beautifully played performance. The solo winds of the Houston Symphony distinguish themselves throughout, and
