Reviews Archive

  Improvisations! For my own entertainment on a Saturday afternoon, I clicked around on the Web, and suddenly I discovered Gabriela Montero. I listened to the music magic of this pianist, as she responded to …

  Franz Schubert: “Wanderers Nachtlied” (Wanderers Night song) Performed by Matthias Goerne (Baritone) In this recording, German-born Baritone Matthias Goerne presents the eighth volume in his ongoing Schubert music. The featured work is Schubert’s setting …

  Prokofiev: Ballet Suites, and more. Sergei Prokofiev was a highly creative composer. I have come to love a lot of his music, particularly his two violin concertos. His ballets are very well known, and …

  Leif Ove Andsnes – The Beethoven Journey. Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 4. The new CD titled “The Beethoven Journey: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 4” is timed to coincide with Leif Ove Andsnes’ …

  Carl Nielsen: Symphonies Nos. 4 and 5 Back in 1962, when Leonard Bernstein recorded Carl Nielsen’s Fifth Symphony, this event provided the composer with a wider international visibility some thirty years after his death. …