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This is Joshua Bell’s first recording of any of Bach’s music. As you might imagine, the playing is expert, for the most part, and Bell
Your reaction to this premiere performance of Nicholas Maw’s Violin
This is a disc that many strictly “classical” listeners may pass over–not surprisingly, since this isn’t really a “classical” recording. However, its illustrious and very
You know how animal conservationists say that it’s essential to cull the over-populated deer herds every so often so as to make life better and
Classical music arranged for banjo? For many music listeners, mention of the instrument brings to mind the 1970s pop/country hit “Dueling Banjos” (made famous by
I’ve heard several of my colleagues sneer at this release, as if a new concerto by a major composer, played by one of today’s finest
Pairing the Sibelius and Goldmark violin concertos is an interesting premise, and not necessarily because they are two lush concertos (though they are), and not
Until now, only Torleif Thedéen’s BIS account of Saint-Saëns’ little-known Cello Concerto No. 2 (written in 1902) with the Tapiola Sinfonietta under Jean-Jacques Kantorow has
New recordings of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto appear with such regularity these days that it’s easy to take them for granted. After all, what can any
It’s kind of funny that a disc called “The Romance of the Violin” contains not a single piece of original violin music, but this particular
