In many respects Jorge Bolet (1914-1990) was an outlier, a […]
If you are a lover of Christmas music—carols, popular songs, and all manner of medleys and clever arrangements of such—and you miss this extraordinary recording
Here is as fine a survey of Advent and Christmas choral music as you’ll find these days, presented by one of the best and most
As with his recording of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!, John Wilson similarly subjects the team’s follow-up musical Carousel to inclusive textual rectitude. Here Wilson aims
Victor Nicoara’s 2021 release featuring Busoni’s Six Sonatinas introduced a pianist whose technical mastery and full-bodied sonority proved an ideal match for this composer’s idiom.
It’s easy to hear the opening of Frank Martin’s Mass and think–Vaughan Williams, as in his own setting for a cappella double choir, composed in
Recorded in June 2022, this Schubert disc documents Maurizio Pollini’s final visit to the recording studio. He broaches the first movement of the composer’s G
Bruckner’s symphonies don’t easily lend themselves to piano reductions. The problem largely lies within the composer’s long stretches of string tremolos. If one literally replicates
If you somehow missed each individual release in the Amar
Martyn Brabbins deserves credit for playing Hindemith utterly without that clunky, Teutonic heaviness that can make so many performances of this music (including many of