Brahms Sonatas Amoyal HM

There’s much to savor in Brahms’ three violin sonatas through the symbiotic and refined musical partnership of violinist Pierre Amoyal and pianist Frederic Chiu. Their

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ARTHUR LOESSER IN RECITAL

The Marston label pays tribute to one of America’s most brilliant and multi-faceted musicians with this eagerly anticipated reissue. Music connoisseurs perhaps know Arthur Loesser

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WACHSFIGURENKABINETT

If Stravinsky and Brecht had collaborated, it’s likely that they would have devised something like this little suite of five short operas. Each opera is

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Gershwin on Naxos C

The principal interest here resides in Robert Russell Bennett’s arrangement called Gershwin in Hollywood, which contains orchestral versions of some top tunes, including “They Can’t

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Nielsen BIS C

Osmo Vänskä is a fine conductor who always brings fresh ideas to the music he performs. Sometimes they work, and sometimes they don’t. Here they

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Shostakovich Quartets

The Sorrel Quartet approaches Shostakovich’s string quartets Nos. 8, 9, and 13 with tremendous energy, vigor, and an emotional intensity that reveals their deep feelings

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Mahler 9

Some of us who came of age in the LP era, when recordings of Mahler’s Ninth routinely took up four sides, still might find it

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