There really is no telling what the truly magnificent pianist Harold López-Nussa will come up. He has participated in some of the most remarkable projects –...
Gabriel Fauré is best-known for his Requiem which among all funeral masses – including Verdi’s – is uplifting and has the odour of incense, no doubt...
Justin Kauflin is all the rage now. His precocious talent was discovered when he was just 2—yes 2—years old. When he was just 15 he performed...
Taking the Brasilian out of Brasil is sometimes possible, but try taking the Brasil out of the Brasilian and that will be well-nigh impossible. The guitarist...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791) – String Quartets dedicated to Joseph Haydn; Cuarteto Casals: Abel Tomàs Realp: violin; Vera Martinez Mehner: violin; Jonathan Brown: viola;...
Franz Schubert (1797 – 1828) – Late Piano Sonatas D 784, 958, 959 and 960– Paul Lewis: pianoforte Schubert’s last three piano sonatas–958 (no. 19), 959...
These recordings: Stile Antico’s From the Imperial Court – Music for the House of Hapsburg and Anonymous 4’s Marie et Marion have been done in high-resolution...
Thomas Larcher (b. 1963) – What Becomes – Tamara Stefanovich: piano (1 – 21), Mark Padmore: tenor (22 – 32); Thomas Larcher: piano (22 – 32)...
Brasil has long since moved on, but that Bossa Nova is still alive and well and still fascinating for the world—not just as a palimpsest, but...
Ludwig Beethoven: Complete Works for violoncello & piano: Jean-Guihen Queyras: cello; Alexander Melnikov: piano Beethoven’s first two sonatas for violoncello and piano Opus 5 No. 1...
Beethoven’s first published works—his Opus No.1—were three trios for piano, violin and cello and already they show a marked advance on Haydn’s trios in the comparative...
If the eyes are shut tight and the mind ran free, it might be possible to hear, spectrally, the sound of monks chanting at vespers, in...
The Brandenburg Concertos are one of the most celebrated and captivating compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach. Paced with bracing athletic vigor and featuring some of the...
The great adventures of Marco Polo are not known to rival those of Odysseus, but they are every bit as beguiling and wondrous. Between 1271 and...
In the liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church Psalm 109 Dixit Dominus--“The Lord said unto my Lord” has actually been set to music more times than...
The minor revolt that brought back opera seria, reviving and recalling epic Greek drama, its incumbent sense of theatre—complete with the finery of its costumes, stage...
Hanns Eisler was the Austrian-born composer who is better known as the composer of the national anthem of the German Democratic Republic (erstwhile East Germany), and...