classical cd

I was enticed by this album’s alluring title, which has more relevance and meaning than many seen on Classical albums these days. This one makes sense, so it works – and I welcomed it. After this […]

An intriguing title comes from Alpha Classics and a conductor who made a strong impression on me when I encountered her a couple years ago, on an album of Harp Concertos, with Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra. […]

So Warner has finally decided to do something other than just aimlessly reissuing the EMI catalog over and over and over, ad nauseum, slapping their logo on each and every one, each and every time, […]

That’s the question. Well…let me be more specific. Why can’t Chandos sound engineer, Ralph Couzens, achieve consistency with the recorded sound of the Sinfonia of London? Why is that so difficult? They record in the […]

I was drawn to this disc for one reason. Joseph Phibbs. Seeing that he wrote a new work enticed me into acquiring this release from Toccata Classics. In all honesty, I wouldn’t have been terribly […]

I was excited to see this new box set of the complete Haydn symphonies from Antal Dorati and the Philharmonia Hungarica. Not only does Decca claim it is newly remastered, they include a fascinating booklet […]

I tried. I really did. But here’s the thing. Compositional ability aside, the recording itself is what really bothers me on this Pentatone CD. Approaching something as bizarre as this, everything must work in its […]

Several months ago, I wrote a piece on this blog complaining about the price of CDs these days. So how are things going these days? Well, things just seem to keep getting worse. In fact, […]

Anyone who reads my blog knows I love the Piatti Quartet. It is interesting though, as is so often the case with many of today’s string quartets, some of their personnel keeps changing (particularly the […]

This 2-CD album presents the 4 complete string quartets of Polish composer and conductor Paul Kletzki. They are very substantial works – the first three of which were composed in Berlin between 1923 and 1931, […]