Davids Classical CDs

​Two recent releases have me losing some respect for 2 esteemed Classical music labels – one for taking advantage of the consumer by offering a full price CD with a ridiculously short playing time; the […]

​This box set was apparently issued to celebrate the 30-year anniversary of the DAFO String Quartet. But you would never know that unless you read the enclosed booklet very attentively, where it is inconspicuously mentioned […]

I received a review copy of this CD in the mail and thought I’d just sample it real quick to see if it was something I would enjoy enough to write about. And I soon […]

This is a sensational release. But I think Charlie Lovell-Jones got a bit short-changed on the production. Unlike the recent release of MacDowell orchestral works, where they put a picture of a self-conscious Xiayin Wang on […]

I was disappointed with Gimeno’s recent Dutilleux recording with the Luxembourg Philharmonic (although the Cello Concerto is quite good) – in large part due to harmonia mundi’s close, flat, somewhat mono-dynamic recorded sound, which lacks the necessary […]

These “Complete String Quartets” by American composer John Zorn aren’t really string quartets – at least not in the traditional sense. These are, more accurately, a collection of 8 named pieces for string quartet. (There is […]

​I’m glad I acquired this enticing new album from the National Symphony Orchestra last November when it first came out – before the egomaniac in the White House sabotaged The Kennedy Center’s honor, credibility and […]

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Here we have another group bursting onto the scene with a new recording of the Ligeti String Quartets. After having been thoroughly bowled over a couple years ago with the Quatuor Diotima playing these amazing […]

What started out as an album presenting 4 world premiers commissioned by the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, turned out to be just 3, plus a regretfully superfluous recording of Kenneth Fuchs’ reorchestration of his Point of […]