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Review by: David Hurwitz
Carlton Classics’ CD reissue of Charles Rosen’s 1977 Beethoven Diabelli Variations lasted for ab... Continue Reading
The Bottom Line: This tribute to the intelligence, musicianship and questing spirit of Richard Bonyn... Continue Reading
Pianist Éric Heidsieck’s Erato and HMV recordings made little headway outside of his native Franc... Continue Reading
This is the CD I only could have dreamed about in the 1970s. When the bel canto revival began in the '50s, it was led by sopranos and (occasionally) mezzos. After the "usual suspect" operas were reviv... Continue Reading
Crumb subtitles his Metamorphoses (Book 1) "Ten Fantasy-Pieces (after celebrated paintings)," and if that sounds like fun, it is. The paintings are by Klee, van Gogh, Chagall, Whistler, Jasper Johns, ... Continue Reading
Bach’s motets are difficult as the dickens but among the most beautiful, uplifting, and refined works of a composer’s output that is positively stacked with beautiful, uplifting, and refined works... Continue Reading
Although Louis Vierne composed his six organ symphonies with the sound of the Romantic Cavaillé-Coll church organs and large cathedrals in mind, one can argue that smaller spaces better absorb the mu... Continue Reading
The Bottom Line: This stunning new release features the world premiere of Whitman, a radio play by Norman Corwin with evocative music by Bernard Herrmann, who collaborated with Corwin no less than 21 ... Continue Reading
Shorena Tsintsabadze’s capable fingers and dour demeanor first caught my attention through her 2010 Naxos release of the Sergei Lyapunov Piano Concertos and Rhapsody on Ukrainian Themes. Ten years l... Continue Reading
