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Haydn’s first 10 keyboard sonatas are unpretentious, inventive little gems. While they were written with the harpsichord in mind, Jeno Jando makes them sound perfectly
Like its immediate predecessor, Volume 6 in Douglas Riva’s complete Granados piano music survey for Naxos explores rarely-heard repertoire (in three cases, world-premiere recordings). Among
For the seventh volume in his complete Granados survey on Naxos, pianist Douglas Riva uncovers no less than five previously unrecorded works. The 10 Valses
If you want to hear some very well-played Sarasate violin music, performed on a disc devoted solely to that composer’s Spanish Dances, then this new
Collectors who’ve enjoyed Luc Beauséjour’s sensitive collaborations with violinist James Ehnes in the Bach Violin Sonatas will find the harpsichordist on solid footing as a
The Music Makers is the Elgarian equivalent of Bach’s Magnificat: it does everything that one of the composer’s choral works ought to do, but in
William Alwyn’s Elizabethan Dances cleverly alternates music evocative of Tudor and modern times, recalling the reigns of both Queen Elizabeths. It’s a work that deserves
This disc, originally released by Reference Recordings but now appearing on Naxos, remains a lot of fun, even if the music is somewhat uneven in
One of the things that I have always liked about Toscanini is the fact that he liked Haydn’s symphonies better than Mozart’s, a preference with
One of the outstanding musical events of recent times…, announces the original broadcast host at the beginning of the CD. And he’s right. Toscanini 1939
