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After a productive but largely uninspired five-year stint with Chandos, the Choir of St. John’s College, Cambridge has gone it alone, and rediscovered its mojo
Listening to Freya Waley-Cohen’s Permutations without reading the accompanying booklet notes, one would assume that it is a work for multiple violins partitioned into continuous,
One of the things that those particularly fond of the Classical era in music love is the formality, the predictability, and the changes that can
If you happened to see Daniel Barenboim’s 2003 Beethoven master classes on DVD, you might remember an unusually poised young pianist, Alessio Bax, who chose
In the past few months at least eight recordings of
This performance of Britten’s great work was recorded over two days prior to public performances presented on the beach at Aldeburgh, the location of the
The challenges of Brahms’ piano works suit Alessio Bax’s big technique, multi-colored sonority, and innate musicality. He imbues the Op. 10 Ballades’ first two pieces
Rachmaninov’s music fits Alessio Bax’s seemingly boundless technique hand in glove, along with his big, luscious, multi-colored sonority and ardent temperament. Indeed, the rhythmic vitality
This is an unusual and unlikely coupling–but listening to it straight through, it sort of works. Yuri Temirkanov adds a few numbers to the usual
Charles Mackerras had style. No matter what the repertoire, or how interventionist his interpretation, he always worked with the music, never against it. His Mahler
