

Are these people insane? Before turning to the performances in […]

Murray Perahia’s concert performances of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 29 Op. 106, the so-called “Hammerklavier”, generated considerable attention during his 2015-2016 season. He subsequently recorded

When was the last time you looked for/listened to/purchased a recording of solo-bass cantatas? Whether your answer is “last week” or “never”, when the soloist

For John Cage is (in this performance) a 72-minute work for violin and piano. Like Feldman’s “carpet” pieces, it consists of repetitive patterns that slowly

Having just come off back-to-back, live performances of Tosca and La bohème at the Met starring Sonya Yoncheva, I quickly gobbled up this newly released,

Today’s percussionists are amazing virtuosos, and the members of Third Coast Percussion play with astonishing precision and sensitivity throughout this intelligently planned recital built around

British cellist Guy Johnston wanted to celebrate the 300th “birthday” of his David Tecchler cello in a manner suited to its distinguished provenance (Tecchler’s renowned

Dvorák’s Symphony No. 8 is probably the happiest symphony ever composed, a notion supported by this engaging new recording by Mariss Jansons and the Bavarian

Prokofiev’s Cello Concerto Op. 58 is a major work. It

After a productive but largely uninspired five-year stint with Chandos, the Choir of St. John’s College, Cambridge has gone it alone, and rediscovered its mojo

