Feature Articles

Composer Eric Ewazen is perhaps best known for his many compositions for brass instruments, but he didn’t set out to corner that niche. He’s written copiously...

Salzburg’s New Mozarteum is an impressive building, surprisingly aesthetic for its bulky size and rigorous modernist concrete look. It contains a good sounding concert hall (Solitaire)...

“Terrific, terrific, terrific!” That was Jonathan Leshnoff’s reaction, when he learned that Naxos would be releasing a CD (reviewed below) devoted entirely to his music. In...

Most Fanfare readers are no doubt aware by now of the large, and growing, number of out-of-print CDs being reissued by the Web retailer arkivmusic.com. My...

There was a time when, if you were to enter a music shop that sold classical music and searched for a recording by an obscure contemporary...

For pianist Vassily Primakov, his new CD of Chopin Mazurkas (Bridge 9289—to be reviewed in a future Fanfare ) is “A dream come true. This is...

Marc Minkowski, still exhausted from recording sessions of Handel, Haydn, and Purcell’s tributes to St. Cecilia, squeezes me in for a short interview during a rehearsal...