The old, and probably no longer tenable, chamber-ensemble paradigm was epitomized by the Beaux Arts Trio. Its members held individual teaching positions, but when it was...
I recently had occasion to review Aapo Häkkinen’s release of Bach’s Goldberg Variations on Alba (283), a performance I called “insightful” and “life-affirming.” Thus, the opportunity...
Think of Michael Maniaci as a technologically superior, 21st-century castrato: a man with a natural soprano voice and all his original parts. The American singer, born...
Recently, you may have noticed several distinctive looking CDs online, or even on the shelves of specialist stores: glossy, solid, black-bordered packaging, Hybrid SACD sound, modern...
Australia’s Eloquence label has restored to the catalog an extremely important part of Decca’s illustrious history of vocal recordings—the complete collection of recordings made for Decca...
Canadian trumpeter/cornetist Frédéric Demers opens his new CD, “Carnaval & Concertos,” with his take on Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumblebee , which makes sense because Demers...
Gavin Black, with colleague George Hazelrigg, has just self-released a recording of Bach’s The Art of Fugue on two harpsichords. Bach didn’t specify the music’s instrumentation;...
Dorothea von Albrecht is an adventurous cellist whose boundless curiosity has led her to explore the terra incognita of improvisation in addition to the more precisely...
Yoram Chaiter is a modern-day Renaissance man—someone who not only engages in multiple disciplines as a career, but who excels in them as well. Besides his...
Çedille is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year with a raft of newly released recordings and several more in the pipeline. Among those slated for 2010...
