I was sorely tempted to dismiss this album without hearing it; looking at the contents it was obvious that this is an easy-listening sort of recording,...
Sophia Jaffé’s debut CD includes challenging works from Bach through Ysaÿe, some of it, like Ysaÿe and possibly Suk, violin music, some of it, like Beethoven...
This is really two recitals folded into one, alternating generally well-known works for clarinet and piano with unaccompanied ones, of which only the paradigmatic Stravinsky set...
The last Naxos viola release I reviewed contained the Lionel Tertis transcription of the Delius Third Violin Sonata ( Fanfare 33:5). That was a great recording,...
Originally recorded and released on Dunelm in 2006, this centennial tribute to Shostakovich offers an illuminating context for his two piano sonatas, setting them against the...
This is good piano playing; controlled, tonally rich, and respectful. And yes, I am damning this music-making with faint praise, because despite these important qualities, it...
There is only one work on this delicious program that was originally for bassoon, the Telemann Sonata in F Minor, taken from his collection The Faithful...
This is an eclectic and thoroughly enjoyable collection of short pieces featuring clarinet. The description on the cover of the inlay booklet promises “a virtuoso showcase...
She has been called “America’s leading lady of the bassoon.” Judith LeClair, as many will know, has been the principal bassoonist of the New York Philharmonic...
Jessica Mathaes, the youngest concertmaster ever appointed to the Austin Symphony, and a graduate of the very fine music school at Rice University, has created a...
