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Review by: David Hurwitz
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You enjoy the guitar, you want to hear something new, but not some off-the-wall, out-there experimen... Continue Reading
Although Shura Cherkassky’s unabashedly subjective and capricious style was out of sync with the m... Continue Reading
All of the Beethoven recordings that Michael Tilson Thomas made for CBS Masterworks are gathered tog... Continue Reading
For the video review of this terrific new release, click HERE or on the image below, and please don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel. ... Continue Reading
Scarlatti recitals on the piano are no longer a rarity, but really great ones still are. Since Horowitz’s groundbreaking disc, outstanding recordings have been made by Mikhail Pletnev, bursting-with... Continue Reading
This tight, creepy opera from 1987 is marvelously economical and enormously effective. Scored only for string quintet, three winds, (a very effective and unexpected) horn, percussion, synthesizer, and... Continue Reading
Twenty years before Beethoven’s "Pastoral" symphony appeared, the German composer Justin Heinrich Knecht (1752-1817) brought out “Le Portrait musical de la Nature”. One might call this five-move... Continue Reading
Recordings of Arvo Pärt's music continue to flourish, and no one seems to tire of hearing (or performing) Magnificat or The Woman with the Alabaster Box, Nunc dimittis, or Da pacem, Domine--all of wh... Continue Reading
Say what you will about Dmitri Kabalevsky’s limited creative range; the fact is that he wrote imaginative and effective piano music that deserves more attention than it usually gets. Those who know ... Continue Reading
