
The second volume in what one hopes will be a complete Brahms piano music cycle from Jonathan Plowright charges from the starting gate with engines
Love her or not, Cecilia Bartoli has done it again. You can argue with her breathy production, her “shotgun” approach to fast coloratura, and other
Biber’s 12 string sonatas titled Fidicinium Sacro-Profanum (Sacred and Profane fiddle music) are relatively unassuming works designed to be performed during church services. They are
This new recording of Verdi’s Requiem joins about 60 others in the catalog. There’s always a push-pull in this work–is it an opera in disguise,
If you’ve been following this series, you already know that it’s one of the great Shostakovich quartet cycles, outstanding even in a very crowded field.
Emma Bell has an astonishingly beautiful, full lyric voice, inherently capable of feats of coloratura as well. This is a re-release from Linn of a
Riccardo Muti made an absolutely stunning recording of the first two suites (more or less) from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet with the Philadelphia Orchestra for
Corey Hamm is a professor of piano at the University of British Columbia School of Music. He has made a career-long study of Rzewski’s amazing
In 2012 Leif Ove Andsnes launched “The Beethoven Journey”, a project involving concert performances of all five Beethoven piano concertos and the Choral Fantasy, plus
This bel canto fiesta is filled with mostly unknown pieces. The only familiar works are Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda, Bellini’s I Capuleti (and one of the