Your guide to classical music online
Your guide to classical music online
I had never heard of the Rosi & Toni Grunschlag Piano Duo until I stumbled across this disc in a second-hand bin. Naturally I couldn’t
These are two major works, all but unknown: big, serious, superbly written and (here) superbly played and recorded. Ernst Bacon is best known for his
Florence Price’s Symphony No. 3 (1940) may be her finest. Written in four well-proportioned movements, it begins with music of high seriousness–a slow introduction that
The Bottom Line: This completely unknown major work is vintage Franck, composed in 1885, the same period as the great orchestral and chamber works on
From the cover art adorning this terrific release, you would think that America (or the United States bit of it) was a land characterized by
This disc is delicious. Ernst von Dohnányi was one of the few 20th century composers with a genuine sense of musical humor. Tante Simona is
Dmitri Klebanov (1907-87) was a composer of seriousness and substance, as the few discs devoted to him available thus far (most spectacularly ESS.A.Y’s gorgeous versions
This is a delightful, even astonishing release. It contains early works by Leo Sowerby, the most popular composer of church music in the 20th century
Forget about the creepy cover art. It must be a sign of persistent sexism in the arts industry that photos of tortured women adorn CD
Eivind Groven (1901-77) was the closest thing Norway got to a composer like Ralph Vaughan Williams. His music is saturated with the melodic and harmonic
