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This is not a crossover venture–repeat, not a crossover venture! Nor is it some midcult stylistic appropriation buoyed up by the notion of “one world”,
Louis Karchin writes music in the “active surface dissonance” fashion of Olly Knussen or Peter Lieberson–lots of snap, lots of crackle, with fast and furious
Take away the dangerous radical politics, the embarrassingly limiting declarations of who can and cannot compose, and the legend of the enfant terrible that has
Peter Oundjian’s finely crafted orchestral rendition of Beethoven’s Op. 131 Quartet is quite the opposite of Leonard Bernstein’s grippingly intense one. Whereas Bernstein strove to
André Previn’s EMI recording of Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony with the London Symphony Orchestra remains one of the finest available. His Telarc remake isn’t quite so
Erich Kunzel never has been a terribly spectacular conductor, but this release largely lives up to its title. The Bacchanale from Samson and Delilah suffers
Arbiter’s proprietor Allan Evans, a veritable archeologist of forgotten keyboard artists, launches what hopefully will be a series of CD releases featuring Pietro Scarpini (1911-97),
The first volume in APR’s survey of Alfred Cortot’s “late recordings” begins with the pianist’s 1947 Schumann Kinderszenen. It’s a less technically secure reading than
This disc and these very capable performances show both the delights and drawbacks of instruments from the 16th and early 17th centuries–in this case harpsichord,
Solomon’s Schubert is a real discovery, especially his 1952 recording of the D. 784 A minor sonata. He conveys the opening movement’s dark countenance by
