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Warner Classics’ edition marking the 50th anniversary of Igor Stravinsky’s To access this content you must login to your Insider account, or purchase a subscription for $5 monthly, or $49 annually.
Within the first few seconds of the first track—the Sonata To access this content you must login to your Insider account, or purchase a subscription for $5 monthly, or $49 annually.
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The Bottom Line: Bernstein was an incomparably great Stravinsky interpreter, To access this content you must login to your Insider account, or purchase a subscription for $5 monthly, or $49 annually.
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Warner Classics’ edition marking the 50th anniversary of Igor Stravinsky’s To access this content you must login to your Insider account, or purchase a subscription
Within the first few seconds of the first track—the Sonata To access this content you must login to your Insider account, or purchase a subscription
This release brings together all of the Columbia Masterworks and To access this content you must login to your Insider account, or purchase a subscription
This is a vanity project, plain and simple. The person To access this content you must login to your Insider account, or purchase a subscription
The Bottom Line: Bernstein was an incomparably great Stravinsky interpreter, To access this content you must login to your Insider account, or purchase a subscription
Put this release squarely into the “naked emperor” category. Scrounging […]
If one were to take this well-engineered release of Bach transcriptions and put it through a filter that replicates the best sounding piano 78s stemming
There are a few dozen complete recordings of Puccini’s nasty potboiler, Tosca, but the major labels seem to have gotten tired of it some time
Hieyon Choi has been performing Beethoven’s piano sonatas for decades, with several complete cycles to her credit in various concert venues. Between 2015 and 2023
Erik Satie’s reputation as a musical maverick and noncomformist (a hippie before his time, so to speak) struck a chord with music lovers in the
Looking for two large-scale vocal works about iconic visionary leaders condemned to death for stupid reasons (Socrates and Jesus), but minus the singing? Then consider
This Satie four-hand collection actually is more than complete. In addition to the composer’s own original works and transcriptions, the superb Dutch husband and wife
Repertoire: The BEST Rachmaninoff Third Piano Concerto
Just about every major pianist has this work in their repertoire, and it's so familiar that it's very easy to take the music for granted. Here are a dozen recordings where that doesn't happen--smart, supple, brilliant interpretations from both soloist and conductor that handle the work's technical challenges with aplomb, while paying due heed to its symphonic credentials as well.
16 Keyboard Suites I Couldn’t Live Without
16 Keyboard Suites I Couldn’t Live Without
Bach: Partitas for Harpsichord
Rameau: Suites for Harpsichord
Couperin: Suites for Harpsichord
Chopin: Preludes, Op. 28
Alkan: 49 Esquisses, Op. 63
Sibelius: Kyllikki
Debussy: Images (Books 1 and 2)
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze Op. 6
Poulenc: 8 Nocturnes
Dvořák: Humoresques
Satie: Trois Gnossiennes
Nielsen: Suite Op. 45 “Luciferian”
Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
Handel: 8 Suites for Harpsichord
Grieg: Holberg Suite
Repertoire: The Haydn Symphony CRUSADE! (No. 67)
Symphony No. 67 in F major
This amazing work features among the most original and extraordinary things that Haydn ever did--and of course it remains virtually unknown.
Musical Examples courtesy of Nimbus Records
Review: A Horrible "Salome" Recorded in Jochanaan's Cistern
Strauss: Salome. Byström, Reuter, Siegel, Dalayman, others. Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner (cond.) Chandos
Music Chat: A Word of Advice to Yunchan Lim's Lemmings--er, Limmings?
Rising star pianist Yunchan Lim is fantastically talented, but his career is just beginning, and it's far too early to tell where it will go. So, if you've already joining the fan club, then on the purely musical evidence alone, you're looking pretty silly. Have some self-respect, and give him the space and time he needs to fulfill his artistic destiny, whatever that may be. He doesn't need anyone's fawning adulation.
Review: Fascinating and Evocative Works for Chromatic and Diatonic Harps
Works by Debussy, Enescu, Koechlin, Rohozinski, Roussel, Vierne and Menotti. Francette Bartholomée (harps), Trio Médicis, Quatuor Kleve. Cyprès Records
This year’s Tanglewood on Parade, a much-anticipated tradition that dates to 1940, will celebrate the life and legacy
April 24, 2024—GRAMMY®-winning production house PARMA Recordings announced today its acquisition of Albany Records. The classical label is
Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada—The Festival of the Sound is celebrating big this summer with an incredible line-up of
