
None of these performances constitute essential Furtwängler, not even the […]
During a relatively long career in music, I’ve noticed that most people–listeners and performers–claim to prefer “happy” music to what they consider “sad” or “melancholy”.
Here, accompanied by a lavish booklet with re-edited and expanded
Theosophy is bad for music. Just ask Scriabin–look where it got him. Danish composer Louis Glass (1864-1936) evidently got into it around 1910, just in
Oh boy, here we go again. Vänskä has turned the
This is a hoot. Who knew that in 1960, Eugene
As a performance, this live June 2016 Prokofiev Second piano concerto operates on the same inspired level as Denis Matsuev and Valery Gergiev’s Prokofiev Third.
All’s well, everything precisely where it should be with this
This has got to be the most intelligent, comprehensive, and
It’s interesting how certain artists who’ve recorded great interpretations of Schubert’s Winterreise can’t leave well enough alone. Matthias Goerne’s Hyperion recording with pianist Graham Johnson,