Menu
Your guide to classical music online
Menu
Menu
Your guide to classical music online
I wish I could recommend Jean-François Heisser’s comfortable, idiomatic way with Granados’ Goyescas. But I can’t, because this 1996 recording suffers from close-up, airless, drab
Recorded between 1973 and 1975, Rudolf Buchbinder’s complete Haydn sonata
This performance is almost fabulous, and I suspect the reasons for its shortcomings stem largely from the still risky business (especially in Mahler) of recording
A new recording of this opera is not needed; in the past couple of years we’ve had two newly recorded ones of varying quality and
Pianist Valentina Igoshina may be Warner Classics’ answer to Harmonia Mundi’s Olga Kern, with her relative youth, good looks, and Russian heritage, as well as
New recordings of Hindemith’s 1942 contrapuntal keyboard tour-de-force Ludus Tonalis are few and far between, and they tend not to stay in print. Great recordings
How does Schumann’s volatile, subjective Romantic idiom fare in the hands of a pianist whose most convincing interpretations usually occur in the realm of 20th
The Shostakovich anniversary year will expand the already generous catalogue of the composer’s recordings, but this one shouldn’t get lost in the crowd. Daniel Hope,
This is a magnificent and tremendously intelligent performance. Daniel Barenboim has wisely waited to record Mahler, and has done so very selectively (his Fifth Symphony
This totally unnecessary live recording embodies a “Mahler lite” style similar to what Claudio Abbado is currently doing, and it has to be admitted that
