Music for children has become an important niche in Daniel Dorff’s output. It is a tricky genre. Britten and Prokofiev managed to create music for young...

Although I very much enjoyed speaking with pianist Vassily Primakov in preparation for his first feature appearance in this magazine ( Fanfare 32: 6), at the...

Music for children has become an important niche in Daniel Dorff’s output. It is a tricky genre. Britten and Prokofiev managed to create music for young...

Although I very much enjoyed speaking with pianist Vassily Primakov in preparation for his first feature appearance in this magazine ( Fanfare 32: 6), at the...

In the 20-plus years that I have been contributing to this publication, I’ve noticed a huge sea change. When I started, Fanfare’s emphasis seemed to be...

This is not the first time Marc-André Hamelin has been competing with himself for a position on my Want List. And if his recording of his...

The baroque cantata went through a period of evolution before it reached its zenith in the examples left to posterity by Bach. Placing opera and oratorio...

This is less a Hall of Fame candidate than a candidate for reappraisal. To my mind it is very good and worth any collector’s consideration. I...

One of the great joys I get from being a Fanfare contributor is the opportunity to herald lesser known artists and orchestras through positive reviews in...

In his 1961 essay “Style and ‘Styles’ in Music,” Roger Sessions draws the distinction between stylistic range and stylistic refinement, and identifies with the former the...

In this Wagner year, the Wagner industry moves on and Barry Millington, editor of The Wagner Journal and author of three other recent books about the...

Toscanini’s career and personality present us with many conundrums. If he thought himself just “an honest musician” and not the greatest conductor in the world, why...

Alcoholics are supposed to remember their first drink. Jazz fans such as I remember when they were first exposed to one of their idols. I heard...

Once upon a time I put together a program of short American pieces for a few friends and was struck by the number of the composers...

This is the fourth in BIS’s series of discs in which the Taipei Chinese Orchestra is paired with prominent Western soloists. Its predecessors featured saxophonist Claude...

Arturo Toscanini is largely remembered for his vast catalog of recordings made in the later part of his career for RCA, with an ensemble specifically created...

The title of this album, La Voie triomphale ( The Triumphal Way ), is described in the program notes as “the straight axis leading through central...

This is a strange yet wonderful disc of music from the Middle East and environs, or influenced by the same. In fact, the only non-Middle Eastern...

Michael Rowlett, Assistant Professor of Clarinet at the University of Mississippi, is one heck of a player. From the very first piece, one is struck by...

Jennifer Koh’s first installment in her series, “Bach & Beyond,” presents two partitas by Johann Sebastian Bach in the company of Eugène Ysaÿe’s Second Solo Sonata...

It might be that “Zeit,” the German word for “time,” and “Geist,” the German word for “spirit,” translate easily, but when they are conjoined into “Zeitgeist,”...

Soprano Kathrin Graf, now 70 years old and quite possibly retired—the last activity I could find for her online was from 2004—has made very few recordings,...

The Tower of London actually contains two chapels, one to St. John the Evangelist and the other the grimly appropriate St. Peter in Chains. They have...

The subtitle is “A sequence of music for Lent, St. Joseph, and the Annunciation.” St. Joseph (March 19) and the Annunciation (March 25) are feast days...

Subtitled “Music from the Medici Codex of 1518,” this comes on the heels of “The Medici Wedding” by the Ring Ensemble on Alba 154, which duplicates...

La Tour Baroque Duo is Tim Blackmore on recorders and harpsichord and Michel Cardin on lute and theorbo. They are based at the University of Moncton...

What is Georg Solti’s place in the pantheon of podium titans? He gained celebrity when he led the first complete recording of Wagner’s Ring to be...

My colleagues Peter Burwasser and Raymond Tuttle have already reviewed this disc in the previous issue, and I have no complaints about their views. I just...