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| Classical Reviews/Composers & Works |
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18 interviews, and over 500 reviews of classical CDs, SACDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays in this 624-page issue! |
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 The Martinů Quartet (Talent’s packaging does not use the diacritic) was founded in 1976, but the personnel have been changing rapidly in recent years. Lubomir Havlák... |
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This much-reissued set has achieved classic status and, as a performance, per se, certainly deserves it. Unlike EMI and Andante, which coupled it with other historical... |
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| Most Popular Music Reviews |
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 The son of a glazier, Johann Pfeiffer (1697–1761) studied law in Leipzig—and presumably music at some point, since he made that his profession, although nothing is... |
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 Two decades younger than the progenitors of Minimalism (LaMonte Young, Steve Reich, Philip Glass), Michael Gordon plows a similar field but reaps a somewhat different crop.... |
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 Now here’s a good release, entering an uncluttered field with repertoire that coincides neatly with an anniversary and that fits its performers like a glove. Where... |
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 Stop the presses and press the stops! This CD of works by Jan-Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562–1621) heralds a major and exciting series that, if it fulfills its... |
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 2010 marks the tercentenary of the birth of Thomas Augustine Arne, one of the most significant figures in 18th-century English music, remembered today for his songs... |
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 In Fanfare 35:1 I had occasion to extol a two-DVD set of Paul Badura-Skoda performing four Mozart piano concerti, an item that promptly made its way... |
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 In 1921, the Austrian musician/composer Edwin Stein prepared a reduction of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony for wind quintet, string quintet, piano four-hands, and percussion, keeping the solo... |
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 Novum (Latin for “new”) is a good name for the New College Choir’s own label, which was launched a year ago with this new recording, still... |
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 This is a well-chosen concert of French music that has the look of a typical Decca-London recording by the Suisse Romande Orchestra conducted by Ernest Ansermet.... |
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In Fanfare 35:2 I enthusiastically reviewed a CD by Apollo’s Fire, Come to the River , devoted to early American folk music. The present CD finds... |
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