
Christian Tetzlaff recorded a superb Second Violin Concerto (with Michael Gielen) for Virgin Classics before his current “Jesus” period (see cover photo). Back then he
This is a clever and attractive coupling: music for solo(s) and orchestra, including voices, nicely diverse and organized so as to make an intriguing complete
In the main, Steven Osborne channels his considerable technique and velvety sound toward textual integrity throughout Rachmaninov’s Etudes-Tableaux. In Op. 33 No. 1, for example,
Franz Krommer, as I have mentioned before, was by no means a “follower” of the classical tradition, but one of the principal participants in its
Unlike his Bruckner, Andris Nelsons seems to have real feeling for Shostakovich, and in the Boston Symphony he has far and away the best orchestra
No need to waste much time here. Pletnev’s versions of
Otto Klemperer’s recording of the Magic Flute has long been considered the recording. When it came out, in 1965, it impressed itself on so many
This is the fifth in Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s and Rolando Villazon’s undertakings of seven Mozart operas to be laid down for DG. The Don G was
Everyone knows about Charles Gounod’s operas and choral works, but
Einojuhani Rautavaara is a most wonderful composer of the 20th (and 21st) century; a giant of beauty who left a catalogue of great music when