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Jed Distler

Erik Satie’s strange little piano piece Vexations begins with a […]

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David Hurwitz

Good as Credo, Hélène Grimaud’s first album for DG was,

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David Hurwitz

When the disgraced Willem Mengelberg, banished in the late 1940s

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Victor Carr Jr

RCA’s impressively swift response to the death of Gunter Wand has righted a wrong I addressed on this very website: namely, the company’s deletion of

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He’d received many honors before, but it wasn’t until last week that John Rutter, best known for his choral compositions and arrangements, especially works related