Classical Reviews/Instrumental

21 interviews, and over 475 reviews of classical CDs, SACDs, DVDs, Blu-rays, and downloads in this 640-page issue!

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Michael Rowlett, Assistant Professor of Clarinet at the University of Mississippi, is one heck of a player. From the very first piece, one is struck by...

Jennifer Koh’s first installment in her series, “Bach & Beyond,” presents two partitas by Johann Sebastian Bach in the company of Eugène Ysaÿe’s Second Solo Sonata...


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Here is one of those recording projects for which I live: an album of mostly unrecorded and unknown classical pieces by women composers, all of high...

West Hill Radio Archives’ compilation of performances by Ruth Posselt includes both live and studio recordings spanning the 1930s and the 1960s. Posselt’s husband, Richard Burgin,...

Albums with clever or cutesy titles and themes can have the opposite of their intended effect; they can turn off an already surfeited potential buyer who...

The piano duo of Mona and Rica Bard, German sisters, make their recording debut here in a well-chosen program of French masterpieces. They play with all...


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This appears to be a new-to-CD of recordings previously released on LP and originally made in 1976, nearly 40 years ago. Noting that one of the...

Into each life some rain must fall, and here I have a small bucketful in the form of a totally tedious disc. The EXO Brass is...

Ever since first hearing a disc of etudes by Fernando Sor, the “Beethoven of the guitar,” many years ago, I’ve loved the sound of the instrument...

I have to admit, the title of this album is for the most part quite apt. Jenny Lin, the Austrian-Taiwanese pianist more famous for classical playing,...

This fascinating and curious disc, which represents my first opportunity to hear Thomas Adès as a pianist (particularly interesting in older music like Liszt and Fauré),...

Since 1999, André Moisan has held the position of principal saxophone and bass clarinet with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, and he is on the faculty at...