Menu
Your guide to classical music online
Menu
Menu
Your guide to classical music online
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
Boris Berezovsky offers a live program of Chopin Etudes placed alongside Leopold Godowsky’s infamously difficult Chopin Etudes transcriptions, allowing listeners to experience Godowsky’s textural elaborations
No matter how emotionally varied or harmonically adventurous Mozart’s piano concertos may be, three in the same key on one concert or on one CD
Daniel Barenboim’s rhetorical, essentially pianistic approach to Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 proves even more postured and self-aggrandizing throughout Book 2. The pianist applies added
I think it’s a shame that the selling point for this new recording will not be the fact that it’s a fine performance of Tchaikovsky’s
However fascinating it might be to juxtapose Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit and Elliott Carter’s Night Fantasies in recital (both works draw inspiration from nocturnal
Leila Josefowicz’s stimulating and refreshingly varied recital program opens with Messiaen’s Theme and Variations, a strangely beautiful work that, although it provides some timbral and
John Foulds’ (1880-1939) Three Mantras (from the unfinished opera Avatara) previously appeared on the Lyrita label in a performance by Barry Wordsworth and the London
Pianist Alessio Bax first came to world attention by winning the Leeds International Competition in 2000. The pianist’s first solo disc for Warner Classics offers
Nikolai Lugansky and Sakari Oramo turn in a solid and smartly paced reading of the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini that matches the high
