Thomas Fasano

Tom Fasano has been writing reviews of classical music recordings for the past quarter century. He's finally making them public on this blog.
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Brahms String Sextets – Menuhin Ensemble

Brahms: String Sextets nos. 1 and 2 Yehudi Menuhin and Robert Masters, violins; Cecil Aronowitz and Ernst…

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Bliss Morning Heroes – War Memorial Revival

Arthur Bliss: Morning Heroes; Investiture Antiphonal Fanfare; Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi Brian Blessed, orator. London…

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Bernstein Symphonies and Divertimento – Slatkin Conducts BBC Symphony

Bernstein: Symphony no. 1, Jeremiah; Symphony no. 2, The Age of Anxiety; Divertimento for Orchestra Michelle DeYoung,…

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Bériot Violin Concertos – Nishizaki and Walter

The Belgian violin school—what a curious footnote it has become in our musical consciousness.

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Berezovsky: Ukrainian Sacred Choral Works by Vidrodzhennya

Maksym Berezovsky: Ukrainian Sacred Music, Volume 1 Vidrodzhennya Chamber Choir; Mstyslav Yurchenko, director. Claudio CB 4730–2. Recorded…

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Bach Family Motets – Clare College Choir

Bach Family: Motets Works by Johann Christian Bach (1642–1703), Johann Bach (1604–73), Johann Michael Bach (1648–94), Johann…

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Stokowski Conducts Mozart and the Philadelphia Orchestra

Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante, K. 297b. Beethoven: Symphony no. 6 in F Major, op. 68, “Pastoral” Marcel Tabuteau,…

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CPE Bach Keyboard Works by Pletnev

C.P.E. Bach: Sonatas, “Rondo”s, and Fantasies Mikhail Pletnev, piano. Deutsche Grammophon 459 614–2. Recorded 1998. Released 1999….

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Horenstein Beethoven Symphonies – Pro Musica Vienna

Beethoven: Symphonies nos. 5 and 6; Overtures (Coriolan, Egmont, Leonore no. 3, The Creatures of Prometheus, The…

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Beethoven and Mendelssohn Concertos by Huggett

Monica Huggett Plays Beethoven and Mendelssohn Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto…