Beethoven: Piano Sonatas op.10 1-3
Pianist Paul Lewis has recorded the entire piano sonatas by Beethoven on Harmonia Mundi, the 8th CD in the complete 10-CD set features op. 10 …
Pianist Paul Lewis has recorded the entire piano sonatas by Beethoven on Harmonia Mundi, the 8th CD in the complete 10-CD set features op. 10 …
Bach Collegium Japan records BWV 43, 88, 146 on BIS in volume 44 of Johann Sebastian Bach’s cantatas. BWV 146 opens the recording, with a “sinfonia” …
I visited three cities during this past week’s travels to Canada. First, we flew into Burlington, VT, which I think is a nice little town. …
Ars Antiqua Austria records the sonatas for violin and continuo by Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi-Mealli on Arcana (p) 2011. The violinist Gunar Letzbor leads on violin against …
Ian Bostridge and Europa Galante Record Works by J. S. Bach This recording is an interesting recital of Bach; it seems the singer (a tenor) and …
This week I look at several recordings of Bach’s likely most under-rated Brandenburg, BWV 1051 in B-flat. The first movement has always bothered me, with …
For this review, I decided to go multimedia, and bring back the long-lost art of the biberfan podcast. Download my 20 minute review of Musica …
Sonaten aus Dresden by Musica Antiqua, Köln, (p) 2001 Challenge Classics In the new millennium, it seemed that MAK couldn’t find the support for all it …
(Nigel) Kennedy’s career, it might be argued, was really launched mainstream with the release of this version of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons around 1990. I had …
What has become one of my favorite meals is roast chicken, following a recipe by Thomas Keller, chef of several well-known restaurants, including Per Se …
This weekend via Netflix I watched A toute vitesse, a French movie with English subtitles released in 1998. It felt low-budget and was of questionable …
Available now from a WDR Cologne production on Berlin Classics (formerly Challenge?) is some chamber music from Johann Friedrich Meister, from his collection entitled Il …
My website hasn’t always been about music, although, since hosting it back in 1998, I have been a fan of Biber. Evidently, I followed a trend …
This album is (p) 1997 ECM. This review was last published in 2003. I remember seeing many copies of this CD for sale when it came …
The Rare Fruits Council performs works by Locatelli and Jean-Marie Leclair, (p) 2001 Astrée Naive Was Leclair an angel and Locatelli a devil? All is settled …
“What did you do this weekend?” a friend at work will ask. “Ah…” I’ll think, with flashbacks to sleeping-in on Saturday, on Sunday, and no big …
Francesco Maria Veracini was an Italian baroque composer most famous for his limp, gained after jumping out of a window. …
This came out around December of last year, I guess, and while on the surface I thought it would be good (a spy movie with …