
Given the endless procession of Glenn Gould reissues throughout the […]
Jennifer Koh has been cited previously on this website several times for her “imaginative and illuminating programming”–and she’s done it again on this disc of
Here we have all of the solo and concerted stereo
Ned Rorem describes this performance of his Double Concerto for Violin and Cello as “perfect”, so it would be presumptuous to challenge his opinion of
Antonin Dvorák’s Piano Quartet No. 2 is one of the greatest chamber works of the 19th century (as are many of Dvorák’s chamber compositions). Written
Emotion is the key to this lovely disc of new music. A Child’s Reliquary (1999) reacts to the death at 18 months of the son
Joseph Kalichstein, Jaime Laredo, and Sharon Robinson offer a decidedly more melancholy Tchaikovsky Trio than we hear in impassioned readings by the Ashkenazy Trio on
The Kalichstein/Laredo/Robinson trio kick-starts its Beethoven cycle by grabbing the so-called “Ghost” by the scruff and not letting go for a split second. The players
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s music is often criticized as being derivative, but it is engaging, well-crafted, mercifully free from gimmickry, and stylistically coherent. The earliest work