Currently 35% OFF! *Offer valid through Monday, May 05 end of day PST*Discount will be applied automatically at checkout. Just adding another Beethoven Violin Concerto? Only two and a half months after I heard Arabella Steinbacher playing Beethoven’s Violin Concerto at the inaugural night of Poland’s Beethoven Easter Festival, in Warsaw’s Filharmonia Narodowa, with Sinfonia […]
On his 99th birthday, György Kurtág reflects on his memories of his late wife Márta’s voice and his new album with baritone Benjamin Appl. Which qualities do you look/listen for in a singer in the performance of your compositions? “For me, real singing is my late wife Márta’s dark silver voice from her youth and […]
View on Positive Feedback I unabashedly love listening to early music, from medieval to renaissance. And much of this music is for voices. Not all, by a long shot, but there is a lot that is a cappella. Early music will be the theme of today’s Recent Finds because this is what has consumed much […]
Now available for 25% Off I was in my mid-teens when I first became aware of the music of Jean Sibelius– Finlandia, the Second Symphony– the usual. I eventually started listening to his other symphonies, and I was hooked. The Fifth Symphony became my favorite. Many years later I came across a used LP featuring […]
Originally written for Classical Source Violin Concerti don’t come any greater or more popular than the Beethoven and the catalogue is awash with performances, so any newcomer is going to have to be exceptional to merit serious consideration. The big selling point of this new one is Jörg Widmann’s radical cadenzas, but these are arguably […]
We were very lucky to score an exclusive interview with mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsey where we talked about her newest release Samsara – R. Schumann & Fauré. Thank you Kate for your time and thoughtful words, and most of all thank you for your beautiful vocal performance. What is Samsara? Samsara is a term used within Buddhism […]
This year we presented DSD music at the London Audio Show 2024. We had the pleasure of presenting our music through Tannoy speakers, and the equally great pleasure of meeting Daniel Raggett of Symphony Distribution who supplied and set up the speakers in our room. I was so pleased by the sound of the Tannoys […]
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You know the question– If you could only have one (whatever) on a desert island, what would it be. Desert Island Favorites can sometimes produce some interesting results. I was thinking a while back about what my desert island favorite tone poems might be. I came up with two: Rachmaninoff’s Isle Of the Dead, and Richard Strauss’ […]
Originally written for Classical Source. Read original article HERE. Ravel’s great score seems to bring out the best in performers and from Charles Munch’s 1955 Boston Symphony account, through Dutoit in Montreal to Roth’s period instrument version there is something to satisfy all tastes. This LSO performance, which is their sixth recording of the work, […]
View Original Review Those who have travelled with me through my notes on recent finds know that I have eclectic taste in music. I enjoy almost anything acoustic that is well performed and well recorded. Unfortunately, this also means that you have to scan through the album covers to see if there may be anything […]
