
What a depressing recital. Whether she’s coping with the cruelty of desire in S’e Legge d’amore (If it is Love’s law), suffering betrayal in Anima
Performing early music–say, works from the 12th through 15th centuries–is a kind of time travel that often involves imagination as much as solid scholarship. We
English Renaissance music completists, where are you? Here’s the perfect stump-your-local-musicologist recording, a setting of the well-known Lamentations of Jeremiah texts by a 15th-century composer
Specialist piano collectors occasionally stumble upon a rare Columbia LP containing Chopin mazurkas played by one Maryla Jonas. As Jonathan Dobson’s booklet notes point out,