Sharon Bezaly has pretty much taken the classical music world by storm, garnering fantastic reviews from all quarters (at least I have not seen one bad...
Violist Vidor Nagy offers us some wonderful playing, steady tone and warm overall sound. This program pulls together four viola trios, all of highest quality, and...
Tired of the “war-horse” mentality that dominates much organ programming, I involuntarily rolled my eyes when I first opened the package and saw the title of...
This is a typical North/South production in that it features new, but conservatively written music, and it is played by its director, New York-based pianist Max...
This is one of several repertoire-based clarinet recital discs that have appeared in recent months, and has to be rated rather high among them. As annotator...
This remarkable set, culled from the archives of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation during the early years in which Glenn Gould emerged as a major classical pianist...
In how many programs does the obligatory sonata follow the encores (the jewel box lists the sonata first)? Chuanyun Li mixes simple and expressive numbers like...
Michael Sheppard is a fine pianist. A pupil of the great Leon Fleisher, his interests straddle the contemporary (he has collaborated with Corigliano) and the more...
Here is another repertoire-based clarinet recital disc, this one comprising early-20th-century Italian works for clarinet and piano. Even several decades in, of course, instrumental and orchestral...
