
At last, BBC Classics has unearthed one of the rarest […]
This ten-disc set is billed as containing “20th Century Classics,”
The excellent booklet notes by our very own Jed Distler
There’s a moment in the finale of Bartók’s Music for
On April 15, 1979 John Ogdon gave a faculty recital at Indiana University entirely devoted to his own compositions, preserved on the present release. Pianistically
Bernard Herrmann had a well-earned reputation as a “slow” conductor
To tie in with the 75th birthday year of John
The first four discs of EMI’s 10-CD Liszt anniversary collection feature Aldo Ciccolini in the complete Années de pèlerinage (his superb stereo remakes), Harmonies poétiques
Although no audience appears to be present throughout this Liszt recital recorded in Tokyo’s Aoyama Tower Hall on June 11 and 12, 1972, both the
Mendelssohn must be regarded as the composer who defanged minor-key music. Hardly anyone used minor keys as frequently, but at the same time so innocuously