Your guide to classical music online
Your guide to classical music online
I leave it to my colleague Bob Levine to assess the finer qualities of newest tenor sensation Vittorio Grigolo as an opera singer (type Q13041
How this terrific 1991 release escaped my piano CD radar I’ll never know, yet I’m grateful to Arkivmusic.com’s on-demand reprint program for bringing it to
It’s too early to faint in the aisles, and I’m gun shy since Rolando Villazon–the most interesting tenor to appear in 10 years–seems to have
This is one terrific CD. It’s interesting that German violinists seem to be taking on the Szymanowski concertos: we have recent releases from Zehetmair, Tetzlaff,
There are several other fine recordings of these two remarkable quartets–not nearly as many as there should be–and they all include additional works that may
In 1949/50 the Juilliard Quartet recorded the first integral Bartók quartet cycle on disc. The group revisited the six works for stereo in 1963, and
Having won a special prize for the best Mazurka interpretations during the 1955 International Warsaw Chopin Competition, it’s no surprise that pianist Fou Ts’ong has
For the most part Arcadi Volodos’ recital from the Musikverein Wien on March 1, 2009 is about sensuality and tone painting, as aptly demonstrated by
Behold Lang Lang’s Sony Classical debut recital, recorded live in Vienna and available on DVD, in Blu-Ray format with special added 3-D performances, on high-grade
The title of this album, “The Secrets of Dvorák’s Cello Concerto”, is deceptive. There are no secrets here, and no mysteries revealed. Indeed, the program
