Reviews Archive

  Brahms: Serenades 1 and 2, Overtures, and Haydn Variations. This recording brings together Brahms’ symphonic works, except for his four symphonies: the two Serenades, full of youthful energy and feeling, the magnificent Haydn variations, …

  Ravel and Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos. On this CD, the late pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli brings his technical mastery to two works composed within a few years of each other: Ravel’s exquisite, jazz-inflected G major …

  Richard Strauss: The Concertos. Richard Strauss became best known for his amazing operas, and for his Lieder for Soprano, some of which he composed for his wife, Pauline, who was a well-known singer in …

  Mozart: Piano Sonatas Nos. 11, 17 and 18 This is pianist Menahem Pressler’s new CD, where we meet a Mozart performed in total serenity, as if freed from all earthly contingencies and tensions, gently …

  Brahms: Clarinet Sonatas, and more— I love all of the chamber music of Johannes Brahms. And on this CD we get a bonus via the inclusion of the piano pieces Op. 118 for piano …