South American Guitar
Guitar Classics of South America Here is yet another recording in my survey of guitar music from around the world. Please take a moment to tell me if you like the trend toward somewhat lighter …
Composers Archive
Magaloff’s Chopin
Chopin: Mazurkas Nos. 1-51 Nikita Magaloff (piano) Chopin’s mazurkas are unique in that they occupied him throughout the course of his career as a composer. He wrote nearly sixty of them. The first was written …
Concerto for Orchestra
Bela Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra I listened to this amazing music carefully again last night. The recorded performance was coupled with a documentary that I also found quite interesting because it presented the historical aspects …
Meneses’ Cello
Hans Gál and Edward Elgar: Cello Concertos While he is celebrating the 30th anniversary of his winning the Gold Medal at the Tchaikovsky Competition, cellist Antonio Meneses offers a release with two firsts: the world-premiere …
Brendel’s Beethoven
Brendel plays Beethoven Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37 Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Heinz Wallberg Variations (5) on ‘Rule Britannia’, WoO 79 Variations (7) on ‘God save the King’, WoO 78 Eroica …