

Karl Amadeus Hartmann’s music seethes with inner anguish, its intensity rooted in the composer’s internal exile in Nazi Germany. Hartmann protested Hitler’s ascension to power

At 77, the great Brazilian pianist Magda Tagliaferro was on fantastic form in this previously unreleased 1970 recital, recorded at the Cecilia Meirelles Hall in

Sonia Rubinsky’s highly anticipated follow-up to her acclaimed first volume in Naxos’ projected Villa-Lobos piano music cycle was worth the wait. The pianist’s lyrical temperament

Could it be that Felix Draeseke, composer of the dreary Symphonia tragica and the interminable oratorio Christus, had that most elusive of qualities (especially in

If you ever wished Brahms had written more violin sonatas, then grab hold of this new disc and introduce yourself to the world of Daniel

Even those who have heard of Nikolaus Bruhns normally associate him with organ music, but judging by this CD of six of his sacred cantatas,

Vladimir Horowitz concocted some of piano music’s most dazzling and effective virtuoso transcriptions, yet avoided notating them for the same reason a great master chef

Sibelius composed three string quartets prior to his well-known Voces intimae in D minor. The first two are the product of Sibelius’ student years, and

If you’d like to access the full scope of Alkan’s quirky style in bite-sized proportions rather than piling into the Concerto for Solo Piano, Les

Partly through the use of added reverberation, Michael Dutton uncovers a wider dynamic spectrum from Erich Kleiber’s venerable 1929 Berlin recording of Beethoven’s Second Symphony
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