EXPLORING MUSIC

Figaro Has Nuptials

Figaro Has Nuptials

Undemanding fun!

All Subtlety and Depth: Mozart and Weber Clarinet Quintets

All Subtlety and Depth: Mozart and Weber Clarin...

Rarely heard these days, the basset clarinet (or, alternatively, basset horn) extends the range of the typical clarinet downward a few tones but adds what the performer rightly calls in...

All Subtlety and Depth: Mozart and Weber Clarin...

Rarely heard these days, the basset clarinet (or, alternatively, basset horn) extends the range of the typical clarinet downward a few tones but adds what the performer rightly calls in...

Never Better Performed-- Telemann's Essercizii Musici 

Never Better Performed-- Telemann's Essercizii ...

And In his too-brief notes to this album, Richard Taruskln sums up Telemann's galanterie, that "quality of civility and wit, grace and everyday congeniality that was worlds away from the...

Never Better Performed-- Telemann's Essercizii ...

And In his too-brief notes to this album, Richard Taruskln sums up Telemann's galanterie, that "quality of civility and wit, grace and everyday congeniality that was worlds away from the...

Meditative Fats -- Dick Hyman Plays Music of Fats Waller

Meditative Fats -- Dick Hyman Plays Music of Fa...

Through the music he composed on organ (and the piano rolls of his playing transposed for organ) we are aware of a much more solemn, pensive facet to Waller, one...

Meditative Fats -- Dick Hyman Plays Music of Fa...

Through the music he composed on organ (and the piano rolls of his playing transposed for organ) we are aware of a much more solemn, pensive facet to Waller, one...

Brilliant Fantasies: Face the Music - A Century of Irving Berlin

Brilliant Fantasies: Face the Music - A Century...

Multifaceted Dick Hyman is, as one hears him here, no mere cocktail pianist. He is to such songs what Liszt was to Gypsy tunes. These are brilliant fantasies, played with...

Brilliant Fantasies: Face the Music - A Century...

Multifaceted Dick Hyman is, as one hears him here, no mere cocktail pianist. He is to such songs what Liszt was to Gypsy tunes. These are brilliant fantasies, played with...

Beautifully Recorded Samuel Barber

Beautifully Recorded Samuel Barber

If ever American music had a fair-haired boy it was Sam Barber. 

Beautifully Recorded Samuel Barber

If ever American music had a fair-haired boy it was Sam Barber.