Summit Records

American Originals

David Vernier

[Peter Schickele is best known as the delightfully clever musical humorist, promoter, presenter, and curator of the works of PDQ Bach, the “last and least”

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SOLILOQUIES

David Hurwitz

It’s actually rather surprising that there aren’t very many concertante works for euphonium. At least as played here by crack virtuoso Demondrae Thurman, it’s a

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Schubert: Piano Four Hands

Jed Distler

Volume 2 in the Aebersold/Neiweem Duo’s Schubert cycle zeroes in on 1824, a vintage year if only for the aptly nicknamed “Grand Duo” and the

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Daniel Asia Symphonies

Jed Distler

Judging from the works on this gorgeously engineered disc, Daniel Asia is a supreme master of compositional disguise. His First Symphony derives from an earlier

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Dausgaard Plays A Mean Mahler 10

David Hurwitz July 13, 2025

A Mahler Cycle From–You Guessed It–Dusseldorf

David Hurwitz July 13, 2025

Insider

CD From Hell: Bad Transfers of Kletzki’s Embarrassing Mahler 1 and 9

David Hurwitz July 13, 2025

Benjamin Bernheim Rules as Met’s Hoffmann
by Robert Levine
October 6, 2024
Benjamin Bernheim Rules as Met’s Hoffmann Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, NY; Oct 24, 2024 Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann is a nasty work. Despite its
RIP David Vernier, Editor-in-Chief
by David Hurwitz
August 4, 2024
David Vernier, ClassicsToday.com’s founding Editor-in-Chief passed away Thursday morning, August 1, 2024 after a long battle with cancer. The end came shockingly quickly. Just a
Finally, It’s SIR John
by ClassicsToday
June 24, 2024
He’d received many honors before, but it wasn’t until last week that John Rutter, best known for his choral compositions and arrangements, especially works related