Thomas Fasano
Lekeu Adagio with Barber and Britten
A Modest Lekeu Discovery, Indifferently Served This Pavane disc—reissued, one assumes, from an earlier album though the…
Frescobaldi Keyboard Works by Colin Booth
Frescobaldi: Keyboard Music Colin Booth, harpsichord and organ Soundboard SBCD 201 [76:19] Colin Booth makes harpsichords. He…
Finnissy Piano Works – Ian Pace Explores
Michael Finnissy: Piano Works Ian Pace, piano Metier MSV CD92027 [76:02 + 70:49] The trouble with Finnissy—and…
Massenet Werther – Tagliavini and Tassinari in Italian Style
Massenet’s Werther in Italianate Splendor Ferruccio Tagliavini (Werther), Pia Tassinari (Charlotte), Marcello Cortis (Albert), Vittoria Neviani (Sophie);…
Dvořák and Elgar Cello Concertos – Robert Cohen
# A Tale of Two Concertos Robert Cohen’s coupling of the Dvořák and Elgar cello concertos—recorded in…
Grieg Lyric Pieces – Håkon Austbø
Grieg’s Miniature Worlds, Beautifully Inhabited The Lyric Pieces constitute one of the great ongoing projects in piano…
Bach Brandenburg Concertos – Il Gusto Barocco
Johann Sebastian BACH (1685-1750) Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046-51 (1721) Il Gusto Barocco/Jörg Halubek (harpsichord) rec. 3-4 August…
Holmboe: Environmental Preludes and Chamber Works
Holmboe’s Environmental Elegies Vagn Holmboe’s final decade saw him turning—unexpectedly, perhaps—to nature. Not the Romantic sublime, mind…
Kusser Theatrical Overtures – Franco-German Baroque Fusion
Kusser’s Theatrical Overtures: A Glimpse into the Franco-German Baroque Crossroads Johann Sigismund Kusser—who Gallicized his name to…
Horenstein Beethoven Symphonies – Pro Musica Vienna
Beethoven: Symphonies nos. 5 and 6; Overtures (Coriolan, Egmont, Leonore no. 3, The Creatures of Prometheus, The…
Barry Mills Chamber Music from Brighton
A Postman’s Pastoral: Barry Mills’s Unassuming Mastery Here’s something you don’t encounter every day—a Brighton postal worker…
Gershwin Orchestral Works – Wild and Fiedler
Gershwin: Orchestral Works Earl Wild (piano); Boston Pops Orchestra/Arthur Fiedler RCA Red Seal 74321 68019 2 [70:02]…
Handel Coronation Anthems – Cleobury and Kings College
Handel’s Royal Music in Regal Surroundings Stephen Cleobury knows something about pageantry. After all, he’s spent decades…
Matthus: Das Land Phantásien – Orchestral Fantasy
Matthus’s Fantasy World Deserves a Wider Audience Siegfried Matthus—one suspects he gets tired of explaining he wasn’t…
Mendelssohn Piano Concertos – Thibaudet and Blomstedt
Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2; Variations sérieuses; Rondo capriccioso Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano; Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra/Herbert…
Gossec Symphonies by Orchestra de Bretagne
# Gossec’s Symphonies: Germanic Form in Gallic Dress François-Joseph Gossec: Four Symphonies Symphony in C, Brook 85;…
Handel Concerti Grossi by Boyd Neel Orchestra 1936-38
Handel’s Concerti Grossi Through the Lens of Pioneering Modernism Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 6 Boyd Neel Orchestra…
Mozart Piano Sonatas – Brendel at Seventy
Mozart Piano Sonatas Alfred Brendel Philips 468 048–2 [74:36] There’s something quietly momentous about hearing a great…