
In 2021, amid the COVID pandemic, Chandos honored Australian composer […]
Silence is a highly underrated component of music. But to fully appreciate and understand–especially in the world of a cappella music–it’s necessary to focus on
These iconic recordings, featuring seven CDs of Herrmann conducting his
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
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
The solo part of Adolph von Henselt’s once popular and long-out-of-fashion Piano Concerto is more difficult to play than it sounds, with its tricky double
On May 30, 1975 Arthur Rubinstein played his last concert in Poland, an occasion commemorating the Lodz Philharmonic Orchestra’s 60th anniversary that featured two works:
Leonard Bernstein was a tireless champion of American music during his conducting career, presenting many world-premieres and leaving an impressive body of recordings–most for Columbia
Pierre-Laurent Aimard devoting a whole disc to Schubert Dances? A far-fetched idea, you’d think. It’s almost as if the late Maurizio Pollini had decided to
Nelson Goerner made an excellent studio recording of Liszt’s Sonata in B minor that the Cascavelle label first released in 2007. This live all-Liszt recital