Issue 36:5
May/June 2013
Magazine Contents

Collections: Instrumental

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...

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...

In 32:3 James H. North wrote a laudatory review of a Blue Griffin CD with contents nearly identical to this disc, the difference being that the...

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...

Carlo Grante has fashioned an imaginative “Hommage to Debussy” whose instrument, refined performances, and overall concept give it a place of distinction among other piano discs...

Elsewhere in this issue, in a review of a string quartet by Alexis Castillon, I mention that my introduction to Castillon came many years ago on...

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...

The first volume of what will apparently be a series of presentations by violinist Salvatore Accardo in the Accademia Walter Stauffer, Cremona, includes two “masterclasses” or,...

In 1993, Music & Arts released “Jascha Heifetz in Performance,” (Music & Arts 766), consisting of remastered performances of concertos accompanied by the New York Philharmonic...

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,...

Three of the four violinists represented in Pan’s collection of works by Jean-Marie Leclair and his rivals (Leclair himself, Jean-Pierre Guignon, and Louis-Gabriel Guillemain—Jacques Duphly played...