Recent CD Review
My review of the disc of Romanus Weichlein masses is here on MusicWeb International. Attractive, vibrant performances, recorded live with considerable immediacy
CD Review: Bootsy Collins, Christmas Is 4 Ever
Christmas albums by popular artists face a pretty significant challenge: how to make the holiday canon, which ranges from medieval plainchant (“O come, o come, Emmanuel”) to high classical music to Tin Pan Alley tunes and children’s TV
Classical CD Buying 101 Soundcheck: Friday, 24 November 2006
Ted Libbey, formerly of NPR's Performance Today, moves beyond the arcane language and insidery talk and shares his secrets to buying and appreciating classical music, detailed his new book "The NPR Listener's Encyclopedia of Classical
More Classical CD Sources
The classical CD section was pretty well picked over. There were a few items of mild interest to me, but the deal was 40% off normal retail--not that great. By the time the prices are low enough to be tempting, I suspect that the ones I
Classical CD: Vivaldi
MASTERPIECE RECLAIMED: For centuries, this piece lay in a library, ascribed to a later composer, Baldassare Galuppi. Now scholars have declared it to be by Vivaldi, and this first recording reveals just how good a work this setting of
Classical CD: Jacques Thibaud
A WINNER AND NEW CHAMPEEN: I'm not sure who my favorite violinist was up till now, but this new compilation of recordings made more than 70 years ago definitely puts somebody fresh at the top of my list. These days, if the French
Classical CD: Bruckner
TIMES HAVE CHANGED: Sir John Barbirolli was not known as a Bruckner conductor in his own day (roughly the middle of the last century), but live radio performances are now being released. In this one of Symphony No.
Classical CD: Rawsthorne
RESPECT, NEGLECT: The Englishman Alan Rawsthorne (1905-1971) belonged to the same generation as Shostakovich and Copland. But, lacking their "public" voices, he's more respected – notably by other composers – than performed,
Music Review: McCartney's classical CD shows his gift for
Perhaps lesser-known, however, is the former Beatle's classical output, a genre he has been releasing albums in since 1991.<p>On "Ecce Cor Meum (Behold My Heart)," his fourth classical album, McCartney eschews the large number of
Shostakovich Complete Symphonies Mariss Jansons, et al CD
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