Music for Several Instruments

2019 Sommernachts Konzert: music by Bernstein, Johann Strauss II, Gershwin, Max Steiner, Sousa, Barber, Ziehrer, Dvorak, Copland Gustav...

Dvorak: Piano Quartets no. 1, op. 23, and no. 2, op. 87 The Busch Trio received very positive reviews for the first disc in their proje...

Dvorak Mass in D; Te Deum I'm a big fan of the conductor Antoni Wit. His Naxos discography is extensive, and a string of awards...

On his way to one of the great peaks of music, the Music Directorship of the Metropolitan Opera, which begins in the 2020-21 season, the ...

The latest edition in Audite's excellent series of The RIAS Amadeus Quartet Recordings is volume V, entitled Romanticism .  It'...

In his especially perceptive liner notes to this new Busch Trio Dvorak disc from Alpha, Jan Smaczny talks about the composer being pulle...

I've sometimes thought of certain composers as soldiers of fortune, but always in a metaphorical way. Antoine de Lhoyer (1768 - 1852)...

This is Marita Solberg's debut solo album , and it's a real winner. I know her only from two Grieg discs on BIS: the complete Pee...

From October 1, 2015: I came late to multi-channel Super Audio recordings, but even with my modest audio setup, I’ve really come to app...

From July 15, 2015: The Seattle Symphony’s house label is one of the best; they’re pretty much batting 1.000 with their releases since ...

From February 4, 2015: Dvorak’s Requiem is a big work full of amazing tunes, awesome effects of instrumentation, choral and solo voice ...

From May 2, 2014: Dvorak had strong links to Britain. The 7th Symphony was commissioned and premiered by London's Philharmonic Soci...

January 19, 2012: These recordings of the late Dvorak quartets were made in New York by Sony in the early 1970s. Newton Classics has pu...

From October 3, 2011: Newton Classics has been re-releasing some outstanding classic recordings recently; this time last year I was ver...