Outhere

Poulenc: Concertos from an Unidiomatic Immerseel

David Hurwitz

Poulenc’s music is supposed to be lighthearted, easy to play, and not too technically demanding. Why then are there so many lousy performances of it?

Almost Ideal Haydn, Vol. 3

David Hurwitz

The programming is wonderful: three symphonies, one overture, and Haydn’s

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Herreweghe’s Brahms 4th Flops

David Hurwitz

Philippe Herreweghe really ought not to be conducting romantic orchestral music. He has no feeling for it at all. In the baroque works on which

A Delightful Scarlatti Piano Disc Reissued

Jed Distler

The Outhere label’s “Rewind Collection” consists of reissues drawn from various European independent labels. This 2005 Scarlatti recital by pianist Racha Arodaky, for example, originally

Mahler: Symphony No. 4/Herreweghe

David Hurwitz

Perversity can be fun. Celibidache, for example, was perverse, but there was method to his madness, and an undeniable level of commitment to anything he