

Stéphan Elmas (1862-1937) was, according the booklet notes accompanying this release, the first Armenian composer of note to write a piano concerto, and although the

The 200th anniversary of Clara Schumann’s birth in 1819 brought forth numerous new recordings that have helped consolidate her position as a worthy composer in

Because Howard Shelley has turned out to be one of

Every so often a Dussek disc comes out and we

Bridge was a genuine minor master, and this boxed set

This program is simply delicious. Who knew that Hummel wrote a series of variations on the tune “O du lieber Augustin,” complete with an episode

In some respects Muzio Clementi’s piano sonatas provide the missing link between Mozart’s and Beethoven’s, and are far less appreciated than they ought to be.

This reissue gathers together some of the couplings to Richard Hickox’s complete set of Tippett symphonies, which now have been redistributed in a boxed set.

In an age of standard-concerto-repertoire catalog overload, it’s understandable that you might be inclined to pass over this disc. After all, who needs another Schumann/Grieg

In his concertos Erno Dohnányi breathes the same musical air as his compatriots Bartók and Kodály. The Piano Concerto No. 2, with its grandly rhetorical
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