This is an all-Argentinian program presented by an Argentinian pianist. If that suggests a uniformity of style in the music, it is borne out here. The...
In Fanfare 32:1, Paul Ingram and I came to rather different conclusions regarding Jennifer Koh's recital of contemporary American works for violin and piano, “String Poetic.”...
With the notable exception of Alexei Lubimov, the pianists featured on these six discs from the 2008 Ruhr Piano Festival in Germany are as yet little...
Part of this album’s title is “Bach and his Forerunners.” While no one would argue that Couperin, Gabrieli, Frescobaldi, and Froberger were not all antecedent to...
Jonathan Carney and his mother, Gloria Carney, recorded their collection of “Parlor Pieces” in 1997. The notes by the disc’s producer, Kathleen Lavengood, contrast the styles...
The recently issued Delos CD titled “reinventing guitar!” is not so much a reinvention as a recital of cleverly employed devices used to vary the sonority...
The superb British pianist Stephen Hough is no stranger to contemporary music. He is a composer himself. And yet this collection of bon-bons is unapologetically old-fashioned,...
I reviewed Jane Parker-Smith’s first installment of this ongoing series back in Fanfare 28:2. In that case, she played the Cavillé-Coll styled organ of St. Martin’s...
