Chamber Music & Recitals

These are taken from the Beaux Arts Trio's highly acclaimed second cycle of Beethoven's complete works for piano trio. As a group the line-up of Menahem Pressler, Isidore Cohen, and Bernard Greenhouse at this point was ideal, and perform with a...

These are special performances and as a group make a highly effective addition to Jean Muller's intended Mozart cycle. I hope that the next volume will not be delayed too long. I found the disc a sheer joy from start to finish and I hope others do too...

These are not only renowned organs with splendid sound, but here as recorded by renowned sound engineers with great experience and success in organ recordings1. Verdi; Grand March (Aida), Noel Rawsthorne, Coventry Cathedral 2. Elgar; Imperial March,...

Thesauri inventio 1 & 2 is in fact two albums in one digipack, one featuring music from the Di Martinelli Music Collection and other from the Kromer?? Music Collection. In the late 17th and early 18th centuries, numerous music compilations appeared that...

There's Stravinsky, there's Bart?k, there's Hindemith; but where is Piazzolla? With this question, the leading composition teacher Nadia Boulanger set the course of a musical about-turn in the work of her student Astor Piazzolla. We speak of tango nuevo...

'There's real authority and vision' to Proshayev's Schumann," observed The Guardian on Denys Proshayev's debut album for Piano Classics in 2013: "the cleanness and clarity of his playing are hard to ignore." A second album focused on Alfred Schnittke...

There's a wealth of character in his playing, which is deeply poetic and dignified (BBC Music Magazine of MC3102 Chopin Ballades & Impromptus) "Kvapil is considered the finest exponent of Czech piano music... A performer with such a specialized...

There's a wealth of character in his playing, which is deeply poetic and dignified (BBC Music Magazine of Chopin Ballades & Impromptus); (Fibich): Kvapil does sterling work championing his compatriot's music; he has chosen an engaging, varied selection...

There's a beautiful marriage happening with Greg Abate's "Magic Dance." It's the union between Abate's multi-instrumental gift of bebop and Kenny Barron's varied and sublime compositions. Abate, with Barron, who handles keys on this recording session,...

There would be much to say on the importance and reasons of the practice of tablature transposition and transcription in the evolution of music for keyboard instruments. What we can point out, however, is that, in the case of some great composer who did...

There was a particularly rich vein of Nordic writing for the violin between the years 1910 and 1930. In this recital Henning Kraggerud, an exemplary stylist lauded for his Sibelius and Sinding concerto disc, Naxos 8. 557266 (CD) and 6. 110056 (SACD)...

There is something deeply troubling and inscrutable in Carlo Gesualdo's music, something that any listener, even the most inexpert one, will unfailingly experience. This most particularly holds for Tenebrae Responsoria (1611), his definitive statement,...