

This tremendously rewarding set contains 38 works on nine CDs, […]

Because Cecile Licad has made relatively few solo recordings over the course of her career, Newton Classics’ reissue of her 1989 Schumann recital (originally on

Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte can be treated as pure jollity, but then the deadly serious Masonic rituals (whether one knows they’re Masonic or not) will be

Not long after I reviewed Gabriele Baldocci’s superb recording of the Beethoven/Liszt First and Sixth symphonies, a CD arrived in the mail containing a live

There’s not a great deal of logic behind this box,

Listening to this set again after a few years and

The large, bold print on the CD cover says “Górecki” and “Works for String Orchestra”—and you would be forgiven for assuming that this is a

This Mahler cycle has had a checkered history on disc.

Frederico de Freitas (1902-80) was a Portuguese nationalist composer who wrote some very attractive music, on evidence here. He was best known for his ballets,

In his recording of Chopin’s 24 Preludes, Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy achieves a fusion of impassioned ardor and classical textual rigor that is immediately evident in No.
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