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 This appears to be a new-to-CD of recordings previously released on LP and originally made in 1976, nearly 40 years ago.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...
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 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),...
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 Film music is becoming an increasingly popular genre for classical musicians. In recent months I have reviewed, here and elsewhere, CDs with very similar repertory by...
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 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...
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 This is another one of those collections of miscellany that is so easily overlooked or dismissed—I would probably pass over it myself if I were just...
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 Nicholas Goluses, who studied with Andrés Segovia and has won the Pablo Casals Award, is professor of guitar at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester,...
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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...
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 This curious set combines recordings from three different eras and three different recording methods, which are not necessarily aligned. The three eras are 1908, the 1920s,...
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 It might be useful to think of this recital as the island of Boulez surrounded by the sea of romanticism. In my imagination, the steely, tautly...
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 On the surface, a disc of reductions for piano duet of works well known from the orchestral repertoire might seem self-defeating. Who would want these, when...
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 It seems like there are more and more thoughtful pianists out there. There are a few reasons for this, I think. The recorded medium has chipped...
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Virtually every concept album from ECM that has passed through my hands over the last several years has, at the least, been a fascinating experience in...
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 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,...
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 Vassily Primakov, born in 1979, studied piano with his mother as well as with Vera Gornostaeva, whose 1959 recital I review elsewhere in this issue. Later...
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Nadia Reisenberg (1904-1983) was a Lithuanian-American pianist who had four different careers in her long life: the virtuoso soloist who impressed Paderewski with her playing of...
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 To hear the phenomenal blind Japanese pianist, Nobuyuki Tsuji, is a wonderful thing, but to see him play adds a new dimension to one’s appreciation of...
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 Once again I am in debt to my job at Fanfare for introducing me to another in a number of exceptional pianists of whom I knew...
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When reading through the numerous descriptions of Maria Yudina (1899-1970) left by contemporaries one gets the impression that she was not a real person; rather, one...
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 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...
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 The title of this disc is something of a misnomer. Out of the five composers represented here, one is an Armenian (Arutiunian), one a German immigrant...
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 On this disc violinist Jennifer Koh demonstrates the connection between the well-loved classical music composed in centuries past and music that is being written by today’s...
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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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 Violinist Alicja Śmietana and pianist Evelyne Berezovsky have assembled a program of dissimilar pieces that Śmietana has tried to tie together in her booklet notes. André...
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 Violinist Édua Zádory and pianist Anastasiia Dombrovska have drawn on their own backgrounds to assemble a program of music celebrating their Eastern-European origins and culture. The...
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