Adrian Willaert’s greatest work was published by Alfonso d’Este in 1559, five years after he bought the only manuscript from the singer Polissena Pecorina, but most...
Howard Goodall is an extremely successful British composer, the author of countless film and television scores, musicals, and many, many choral works. His music is inevitably...
The Kalichstein/Laredo/Robinson Trio’s Brahms piano trios on a three-CD Vox Box set (3029) that also contains Mendelssohn’s two piano trios and Dvořák’s “Dumky” Trio were recorded...
Words are inadequate to describe the sheer joy I experienced at listening to this disc. I’d long ago abandoned hope of ever hearing Beethoven’s Fourth Piano...
During his lifetime, with some 80 operas, mostly comic, to his name, Giovanni Paisiello (1740–1816) was actually better known and more popular than Mozart, whose own...
If there are two composers not normally associated with the kind of white-heat performances of Martha Argerich, they are Beethoven and Mozart. Though generally thought of...
Mary Lee Taylor Kinosian is the violinist of the Upton Trio (with Dusan Vukajlovic, cello and Billy Shepherd, piano), based in Columbia, South Carolina. She’s obviously...
Composer/conductor Johnterryl Plumeri’s Bassoon Concerto has been praised and insightfully analyzed by Paul Snook ( Fanfare 21:2), and James Reel had very positive things to say...
The great portrait and landscape artist Thomas Gainsborough was a good friend of Carl Friedrich Abel. That likely explains why Gainsborough’s fine portrait of Abel was...
It is unusual for a Western composer to compose and perform on a Chinese instrument. That is reason enough to explore Christopher Roberts’s disc of four...
This is the best recording of Britten’s realization of John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera currently in the catalog. That it is the only modern version tells...
