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This strange release is somewhat off-putting. Much like Christina Pluhar and her L’Arpeggiata, Andrea Marcon and La Cetra Barockorchester take a grand Baroque view of
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In her recording of Orfeo and elsewhere, conductor Emmanuelle Haïm To access this content you must login to your Insider account, or purchase a subscription
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From the PC of the deceased Iannis Xenakis, Pierre Boulez […]
The American-born/Brazilian-raised pianist Yara Bernette (1920-2002) may not be a […]
This strange release is somewhat off-putting. Much like Christina Pluhar and her L’Arpeggiata, Andrea Marcon and La Cetra Barockorchester take a grand Baroque view of
Iannis Xenakis’ music is impenetrable to many listeners, and a good number of those folks would describe it as “unlistenable” as well. Here we have
This disc presents volume one a projected complete orchestral works of Iannis Xenakis (b. 1922). They are not for the faint-hearted, being the fullest expression
The origins of Iannis Xenakis’ Oresteïa are almost more remarkable than the music itself, a truly bizarre “only in the USA” sort of story. Sometime
This is a useful release from a discographical standpoint in that it accounts for every Rachmaninov two-piano and one-piano-four-hands composition or arrangement. The Genova &
Rachmaninov’s Second is the quintessential Russian symphony; that’s certainly the view of many Russian conductors who play the work as a mash-up of Rimsky Korsakov,
The Five Greatest Debussy Recordings
The Five Greatest Debussy Recordings
Piano Works (Michelangeli/DG)
Images for Orchestra (Boulez/Cleveland Orchestra/Sony)
Pelléas et Mélisande (Stillwell/von Stade/van Dam/Karajan/Warner)
Sonatas (Boston Symphony Chamber Players/DG)
La Mer (NBC Symphony/Toscanini/RCA)
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Haydn! (Random Reviews from the Overflow Room 10)
Major soloists play Haydn's sonatas and concertos with varying degrees of success--plus some very fine conducting.
Review: Scintillating Royer Harpsichord Pieces from Mie Hayashi
Royer: First Book of Keyboard Pieces. Mie Hayashi (harpsichord) Resonus
The Five Greatest Mendelssohn Recordings
The Five Greatest Mendelssohn Recordings
Symphonies (Dohnányi/Vienna Philharmonic/Decca)
Octet (Smetana & Janácek Quartets/Supraphon)
Elijah (Terfel/Fleming/Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/Daniel/Decca)
String Quartets (Pacifica Quartet/Cedille)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Ozawa/Boston Symphony/DG)
Haydn! (Random Reviews from the Overflow Room 9)
The complete piano sonatas and two very different versions of The Creation!
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
