This is a tremendous coupling. We have been looking at quite a lot of Respighi of late (orchestral works from Wuppertal; orchestral transcriptions of Bach and Rachmaninnov from Liège; his operas Maria Egiziaca and La […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: I love artists who attempt the impossible. Within reason, that is. I’d draw the line at someone playing the 32 Beethoven sonatas one-handed, or the 15 Shostakovich quartets […]
With a double change of violinist and violist, David Harrington is the last survivor of the group he founded in 1973. ‘We listened to several hundred of each instrument,’ Harrington told the San Francisco Chronicle. […]