

There’s a certain honesty to Kurt Atterberg’s music that’s really very fetching. His harmony is resolutely diatonic and romantic: when it’s major it’s happy, when

This classic recording is one of the more valuable examples

Although the topic of war and reconciliation provides a loose subtext for certain selections in Daniel Barenboim’s 2014 Vienna Philharmonic New Year’s Concert, you don’t

All of the positive attention and high praise that 26-year-old pianist Igor Levit has garnered in Europe is thoroughly justified by his Sony Classical debut

Do the major labels really think that we’re fools? How

This disc features Herbert von Karajan’s Beethoven style at its

The outstanding item on this otherwise unremarkable program is Marius Constant’s wholly convincing 1990 orchestration of Gaspard de la nuit. It goes without saying that

Stephen Sondheim does not consider Sweeney Todd an opera, but that doesn’t stop his 1979 musical theater masterpiece from turning up in opera houses and

The feature attraction here is Lutoslawski conducting his own Third

Bernstein played a lot of Mozart in his day, and
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