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This is excellent quartet playing. Some listeners might well prefer a touch more rhythmic drive in, say, the first movements of the C major and
At 36:43, Evgeni Koroliov’s Kreisleriana times out to be one of the longest on disc. This is not so much because of slow tempos as
The Auryn Quartet’s performance of Schubert’s C major Quintet is so immaculately and persuasively realized that, like the work itself, it’s scarcely believable that any
This set of Bach motets performed by the Sächsisches Vocalensemble (Saxon Vocal Ensemble) has everything that the recent Sarum Consort disc on ASV (see reviews
How accurately do piano rolls represent the performances they purport to reproduce? Do the pedaling, articulation, dynamics, tone quality, projection, and stylistic considerations ring true?
Just how anyone “hears” tubes when playing back CDs, which involve digital-to-analogue conversion, remains a mystery. An even bigger mystery is how such folks determine
This CD is recommendable for the two works by Gade, rather than the piano trio by Chopin. While the Chopin Trio (the Polish composer’s only
Pianist Markus Schirmer has long desired to juxtapose Ravel’s Miroirs and Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, and as it happens, these cycles make a stimulating
A strong personality, intelligent musicianship, and supreme technical refinement grace Evgeni Koroliov’s previous Tacet releases devoted to music of Bach, Tchaikovsky, and Schubert. The same
If you read the entry in Grove’s regarding 20th-century German composer Ernst Pepping–his output is described as being primarily “austere…Protestant sacred choral and organ music”–your
