
Each generation of pianists contains at least a handful of artists who take the time to delve into Grieg’s Lyric Pieces, such as Walter Gieseking,
Nielsen was a high energy composer, perfectly suited to a “muscle” orchestra like the New York Philharmonic. Listening to these two performance we are reminded
Scaling the Mahler Ninth Symphony’s immense instrumental forces and harrowing emotional extremes down to chamber-sized dimensions may sound downright crazy. Thanks to David Bernard and
They’re at it again. Just as Elgar may have stopped
Warner Classics’ edition marking the 50th anniversary of Igor Stravinsky’s
The Bottom Line: Bernstein was an incomparably great Stravinsky interpreter,
There are a few dozen complete recordings of Puccini’s nasty potboiler, Tosca, but the major labels seem to have gotten tired of it some time
Put this release squarely into the “naked emperor” category. Scrounging
Hieyon Choi has been performing Beethoven’s piano sonatas for decades, with several complete cycles to her credit in various concert venues. Between 2015 and 2023
Erik Satie’s reputation as a musical maverick and noncomformist (a hippie before his time, so to speak) struck a chord with music lovers in the