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Beethoven’s Triple Concerto works best when played like a svelte, […]
This disc is as beautifully planned as it is played and engineered. The two Saint-Saëns cello concertos are superb pieces–succinct, shapely, melodically memorable, passionate and
It seems that reviewing music naturally gives rise to cooking (and specifically barbecue) analogies, at least when the performances demand superlatives: smoking, searing, scorching, flaming,
Dutilleux is of course best known for his small but
Rautavaara’s late works continue to reveal the hand of a master with a completely assured technique and a serenely confident personal style. Towards the Horizon,
Haflidi Hallgrímsson was himself a cellist, and these two works reflect his utter confidence in writing for the instrument. The Cello Concerto is a major
Kurt Atterberg’s Cello Concerto is so beautiful and melodically attractive that you hardly notice the absence of thematic development (partly a function of the composer’s
This performance of the Brahms Violin Concerto is one of unalloyed greatness. Vadim Repin feels no need to make ostentatious points in, say, the first
Truls Mørk’s unaccompanied Bach playing has a lightness and agility that seems to downsize his cello to violin dimensions. No rough edges tarnish his bow
Although he writes music in a very different style today, Arvo Pärt was right not to repudiate these early works, difficult though some of them
