

Deutsche Grammophon doesn’t miss a beat. No sooner does its boxed set devoted to Martha Argerich’s complete DG recordings appear than the yellow label brings

Roberto Sierra has taken a lot of guff for his exploitation of Puerto Rican and Latino popular music idioms in “classical” concert music. After all,

King Roger of Sicily is at Mass when word of a man who has been preaching around the countryside arrives. The “heretic”, who calls himself

This second volume of pianist Matthias Kirschnereit’s splendid series of Handel organ concertos transcribed for the modern Steinway contains four works, Nos. 13-16. No. 13

OK, so Honegger isn’t exactly a bag of laughs to begin with, but he’s also not as dreary as Denève and his Stuttgart forces make

Dmitri Alexeev has been working his way back onto the discographical radar, notably with cycles respectively devoted to Chopin Mazurkas and Scriabin piano sonatas. As

Guitarists have been transcribing Bach’s music for their instrument practically since there were guitarists and music by Bach, and although there are other versions of

This is a lovely performance–sensitive, very well played, shapely and effortless. Conductor Marc Albrecht makes his points without exaggeration, revealing personal touches in his care

This is a reissue of a performance originally released on Deutsche Harmonia Mundi in Europe, one of the label’s final offerings before it was dissolved

You really want to like Edouard Lalo’s first two piano trios. The composer writes supremely well for violin, cello, and piano, and handles the genre
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