On the grounds of Prague’s ancient Vyšehrad Castle, high above the right bank of the Vltava river, is a cemetery. Not an “ordinary” one, but
Prior to the invention of the phonograph, the piano was
Out of eleven issued live recordings of Richter playing Sonata No. 6, Alto opts for the same October 6, 1956 Moscow performance released by Parnassus.
Here’s a Beethoven Piano Concerto cycle that makes one listen to these ubiquitous works with fresh ears. More importantly, it does so without resorting to
Garrick Ohlsson and Donald Runnicles accomplished the ambitious feat of recording all five Beethoven piano concertos over five consecutive days in July 2022. You wouldn’t
Although André Watts recorded all of these selections commercially for EMI in the 1980s, the 1986 Schwetzingen Festival SWR broadcast recordings issued here for the
Violinist Tai Murray can legitimately boast just a third-degree separation from the composer of these solo violin sonatas: one of her teachers, Yuval Yaron, was
Although C.P.E. Bach originally composed his six sonatas dedicated to the Duke of Württemberg for the clavichord, the modern concert grand easily lends itself to
In the early days of CDs and digital recording it was always something worth noting when, as a reviewer you heard something that sounded exactly
Whenever the words “among the most frequently performed” are used in a description of a contemporary choral composer, we usually can expect (if the claim