

In her personal comments included in this disc’s liner notes, violinist Rachel Barton Pine laments the fact that, although they used to be concert staples

Stephen Paulus was a successful, prolific, and much-revered American composer acclaimed for his work in all the major genres, particularly opera, orchestral, and choral; his

Timings ought not be a harbinger of performance quality, yet Igor Do Amaral’s unusually protracted ones throughout Alkan’s Symphony for Solo Piano give fair warning.

How does a group of performers make a Vivaldi concerto you’ve heard more times than you can count sound, well, fresh and engaging? You play

The idea to make a program of music composed by

[This isn’t really a “review” but a recommendation–one of the highest distinction. To legitimately call something a “classic”, any work of art needs time, and

The title of this CD, “Majestic Liszt”, is unquestionably appropriate, not just for the lyrical breadth characterizing the selections but also for Sandrine Erdely-Sayo’s aristocratic

If there’s ever been a sterner and bleaker studio rendition of Brahms’ First concerto than Michael Korstick’s collaboration with Constantin Trinks and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester

Over the past few years Alexandre Tharaud invited 22 of his pianist friends and colleagues to record a piano duet with him, either in brief

In 2021, amid the COVID pandemic, Chandos honored Australian composer
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