
For his latest Bach outing, Piotr Anderszewski has selected a well-contrasted and intelligently programmed group of twelve Preludes and Fugues from The Well-Tempered Clavier Book
This disc is so bad that I’m reviewing it twice,
The Bottom Line: Finally, a performance of Mahler’s youthful horror story that realizes every gruesome detail with positively sadistic relish. There are other fine versions
Reading Chris Walton’s biography of Othmar Schoeck is a fascinating trip into a different time, just a century ago. But it’s also an object lesson
Toccata Classics has amassed an exceptional catalog of interesting and neglected repertoire, and this appealing release certainly fills that bill. If you’ve been following the
Between 1951 and 1963 Deutsche Grammophon made a sizeable number
There’s something lazy about these performances, as if conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin assumes that the gorgeous playing of the Philadelphia Orchestra, with its fabled Rachmaninov tradition,
It takes both uncommon virtuosity and sheer chutzpah to tackle Franz Liszt’s solo-piano transcriptions of the Beethoven symphonies. Only a handful of pianists have recorded
These are, by and large, excellent performances, very well played and conducted. My colleague, Jens Laurson, described Noseda’s recording of Symphony No. 8 as “middle-of-the-road,”
I wanted to love this. Honeck is a brilliant conductor who has given us great Beethoven. There are fantastic things in the first two movements