Classical Music
This new recording of Charles Villiers Stanford’s”Requiem” by Martyn Brabbins, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO), and the University of Birmingham Voices, is beautiful and often memorable.
Read MoreAn album that does admirable justice to one of the most prolific, significant, and increasingly long-lived composers of a remarkable generation.
Read MoreRandall Goosby’s sophomore album proves that the violinist is the real deal.
Read MoreIn this splendid album, pianist Kristin Ditlow shares her love of the piano in melody-drenched works from many lands and peoples.
Read MoreA prize-winning revival of a politically rambunctious, often-entertaining opera from ’60s East Germany
Read MoreFirst presented in 1813, “Les Abencérages” displays the mastery and inventiveness of the renowned composer of the opera “Medea.”
Read MoreA new CD brings us marvelous and varied works by an American master composed between the ages of 88 and 93 (and a mere child at 55).
Read MoreBohuslav Martinů, one of the greatest Czech-born composers, reveals a dark-comic sensibility in his rarely performed “Knife” and “Bridge” operas.
Read MoreThis recording of Jean-Baptiste Lully’s Psyché provides non-stop pleasure and delights, thanks to the latest developments in early-music performance practice.
Read MoreKeith Jarrett has said that he thinks there is room for C.P.E. Bach recordings on a modern piano. He proves himself right with these 1994 recordings.
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