[asa]B00JJ09S5K[/asa] Published by Purcell’s widow in 1697, following his untimely death, Ten Sonatas in Four Parts is the composer’s last great contribution to Baroque chamber music. As in his earlier…
[asa]B00JM29PTE[/asa] Tchaikovsky’s The Seasons was first published in 1876 in instalments in Nuvellist, a Russian cultural journal. The pieces are a far cry from the spectacular brand of pianism found…
[asa]B0009MWAVQ[/asa] Among his many eclectic interests, the Pittsburgh-born, French-trained harpsichordist Scott Ross counted volcanology, mineralogy, mycology, knitting and gardening – even cross-breading orchids at his home near Montpellier. “I’m not…
[asa]B00ITUVDZ4[/asa] Abbado’s Elgar Symphony No. 2 was the great Berlin might-have-been, but Barenboim does no half-hearted job persuading anyone who didn’t already know it – like most of Europe – that this symphony…
[asa]B00HS7BYP8[/asa] Pity the poor violist, stuck between the violinist – proud owner of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas – and the cellist, who can boast the equally wonderful Cello Suites. It’s…
[asa]B00HS7BYP8[/asa] Pity the poor violist, stuck between the violinist – proud owner of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas – and the cellist, who can boast the equally wonderful Cello Suites. It’s…
Presto Classical, the Leamington Spa-based record retailer (and mail-order store), has recently launched a custom pressing services for deleted recordings. Manufactured on site under licence from the original labels, the…
[asa]B00IJBYUI0[/asa] John Eliot Gardiner leads the LSO in first-rate music-making here. These two Stravinsky works are contemporaneous, if poles-apart stylistically. Each is a masterpiece. Apollon musagète is for strings, pure in its beauty, and now…
[asa]B00HS7C0MY[/asa] Conventional wisdom once held that non-Slavic voices were incapable of singing Rachmaninov’s All-Night Vigil (Vespers). Since the music’s subterranean bass lines and mystical fervour emerged from that eternally suffering…
[asa]B00H287OFM[/asa] Thomas Larcher’s piano writing in the disc’s seven-movement title work is conventional in all but the string-sawing finale. If What Becomes is the most satisfying composition here (the open-palmed…