The Gallo label has released a series of five CDs featuring concert and radio broadcast performances from the 1960s and 1970s by the Swiss-born violinist Ursula...
Composer-pianist Gary Smart is a rare bird indeed, being a classical musician other than an organist who can improvise. His career has encompassed a wide range...
Q: Let’s begin by discussing your label, LP Classics. When did you conceive the idea, and why? Lavrova: Vassily and I partnered initially as duo pianists...
There is no shortage of recordings of Beethoven’s cello music. Pablo Casals and Rudolf Serkin, Leonard Rose and Glenn Gould, Mstislav Rostropovich and Sviatoslav Richter, Jacqueline...
The composer started to beat out a regular rhythm with his hands, then interjected chanted syncopations. I became a little nervous when the subject turned to...
Naxos’s ongoing commitment to American music is heartening, giving the listener tools to get beyond the crude stereotypes that are often applied to this messy subject....
Yarlung Records’ compact disc featuring Los Angeles Philharmonic clarinetist David Howard is somewhat unusual because it combines 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century works instead of works of...
Grace Nikae is a talented young pianist with a fresh interpretive personality. Generally light-toned, with nimble fingers and an often silken touch (especially prominent in the...
