Your guide to classical music online
Your guide to classical music online
Leopold Godowsky’s 1927 Passacaglia subjects the opening measures of Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony to 44 variations, a cadenza, and a huge fugue. There’s nothing remotely Schubertian
On disc and in concert, Marc-André Hamelin’s interpretations of so-called “standard” piano repertoire have a hit-and-miss quality that contrasts with the unflappable authority and frightening
The Age of Anxiety hasn’t lacked for excellent recordings, specifically those by Litton/Kahane (Virgin) and Bernstein/Foss (Sony), not to mention Lenny’s two later recordings for
Once again, pianist Marc-André Hamelin exhumes a long-forgotten composer of some interest, the Moscow-born Georgy Catoire (1861-1926). A student of Klindworth and Lyapounov, Catoire belongs
Marc-André Hamelin has become one of the most active recording pianists of our time. This is his 18th CD for Hyperion, out of a discography
In 1864 Richard Strauss was born and Alfred Lord Tennyson’s narrative poem “Enoch Arden” was published. The poem was a huge success throughout Europe, and
Max Reger’s music is never likely to be popular. Among this century’s great pianists, only Rudolf Serkin championed some of it (the piano concerto in
