There are recordings that gather repertoire together because it fits beautifully on one CD. And there are recordings that take a different starting point...
There are albums you don't just play, but enter, the way you enter a church where the light is already...
Some recital CDs impress through sheer virtuosity, while others stay with you because they place a familiar musical world in a new light...
A composer known solely for the way he died usually reveals little about how he...
Some composers have a way of getting under your skin the moment you let them in, and Astor Piazzolla...
There are works you don't so much listen to as enter into, and Die Kunst der Fuge BWV 1080 is...
There are operas that you only get to know when someone takes the trouble to dust them off...
There are albums that announce themselves as a curiosity and ultimately prove to be something far more profound: not...
There are composers who are not forgotten because their music was weak, but because history simply took a different...
There are recordings that present obscure music as a curiosity from an archive, as a footnote in a history book...
Some composers find themselves only after years of wandering, and there are those who, like Nikolaj Medtner...
There are discoveries that don't happen in archives, but in places where nobody expects music yet. In 1968, during...
There are pairings that are purely practical in nature – two works that happen to fit on one disc – and...
There are composers whose names survive thanks to the teaching circuit, while their actual artistic significance got lost somewhere along the way. Sigfrid...
There are CDs that showcase landscapes, and there are CDs that reveal how landscapes resonate within a person...
There's still something clinging to the name Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944) that whiffs of the Parisian salon: teacups,...
The clarinet-accordion combination never achieved the status of, say, the violin sonata in chamber music, and that's not...
Escapes, the new album by Bulgarian-Luxembourgish composer Albena Petrovic (*1965), unfolds gradually. With a concerto, four...
There are composers whose life stories you can barely separate from their music. Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942) is one of them...
There are programs that lend themselves to a simple listing of works, and there are programs that start from...
