Reviews Archive

  Claudio Abbado conducts Mozart and Beethoven. What I experience in this recording is that all the performers are equal before the composition, equal before the composer, and before the mysteries of the score; this …

    Sophie – Mayuko Vetter performs: Brahms: Klavierwerke (Works for piano). On this CD you will hear both previously unknown, first recordings of early works along with well-known late Brahms masterworks. Specifically, the compositions …

  Emanuel Pahud, Flute player. Revolution: Flute Concertos. For this release, Emmanuel Pahud explores the history and evolution of the flute in the second half of the 18th century, with music as listed below: Devienne: …

    Sviatoslav Richter plays Chopin. After a pause of a few months, I listened again today to the amazing pianist, Sviatoslav Richter. I was stunned! I heard him play some Chopin Etudes the way …

    Well-Known Lieder By Brahms and Schumann. While most of the posts at my Blog are likely to feature instrumentalists and orchestral selections, I felt that this collection of songs (German: “Lieder”) would be …