
First the music: there are two wonderful pieces here and one dud. Martinu’s Concerto No. 1 easily is the finest of the two he wrote,
This is a very beautiful disc of elegant, finely made chamber music. Good cello sonatas are not exactly thick on the field, offering serious problems
This is a disappointing release. Pianist Martin Kasík lurches though the Piano Concerto with none of Moravec’s elegance or Firkusny’s commanding classical poise, and he
Magdalena Kožená’s multi-lingual recital shows this singer’s formidable talent for performing widely varying musical styles. Beginning with her idiomatic French (of which we had a
Jirí Bárta and Jan Cech present Dvorák’s “first” Cello Concerto in A in its original version for cello and piano (the more famous one we
Shostakovich’s two cello concertos are works of unusual concentration and irony. The second, in particular, includes near the end of the final, largely peaceful Allegretto
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