
La Dolce Volta has taken over the Talich Quartet recordings […]
What does one do with a live performance of Lohengrin in which there’s nothing actually wrong, but nonetheless fades seconds after you’ve heard it? I’ve
Every decade or so some enterprising label takes Danish composer Louis Glass’s (1864-1936) symphonies out for a spin. Danacord tried it, and so did Marco
Following his impressive Beethoven sonata cycle, Stewart Goodyear takes on the composer’s Diabelli Variations. His performance is stylistically and spiritually akin to those of Rudolf
Joachim Raff’s symphonies have a reputation as being diffuse, bloated,
This symphony has balls. There’s no coy foolishness surrounding the number nine, and no quasi-mystical hooha. What we get is simply a fine piece of
Michael Korstick’s Schubert interpretations evoke granite structures coated with steel, as if Rudolf Serkin’s brain were welded to Alexis Weissenberg’s hands. A tone that tends
New Zealand composer Ross Harris’ Symphony No. 4 was commissioned by the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra. It is subtitled “To the Memory of Mahinarangi Tocker,” a
“A unique selection of magical piano moments that have shaped Khatia’s life,” reads the sticker on what appears to be a gimmicky concept album, but
Captured in very good mono broadcast-quality sound, with an impressively