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Other than a human voice, no instrument has more individuality than the organ, and none has nearly the multitude of combinations and permutations of colors
Rameau on piano? Aren’t Rameau’s tactile syntax and ornamental surface style necessarily instrument-specific (meaning, of course, the harpsichord), whereas Bach’s “universal” language can be applied
I won’t mince words. Of all the professional, modern recordings of Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, this is one of the least distinguished.
One of the most perfect performances of anything that I ever heard live featured Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony in Mahler’s Ninth. His interpretation
As with the uniquely American choral tradition embodied in choirs such as St. Olaf’s and Westminster, so does the Eastman Wind Ensemble represent the “pioneering
Listening to Paul Hindemith’s earlier, dance-inspired piano works such as the 1922 Suite and the Op. 19 Tanzstücke, I always wonder if a wind or
Accompanied by the superb Staatskapelle Dresden, Finnish soprano Karita Mattila here presents eight German Romantic arias, two of which–both concert arias–are in Italian. The CD
As noted previously by my colleague Dan Davis in his review of the “original” Borodin set of the Tchaikovsky quartets (type Q2878 in Search Reviews),
André Souris was sort of a Belgian Poulenc or follower of “Les Six”. His music consists largely of brief, brittle, witty neo-classical dance pieces. The
Because Debussy starts with sound, it’s difficult to endure the drab, dynamically restricted engineering throughout these performances. Jean-Pierre Armengaud’s uneven pianism and inconsistent interpretations don’t
