Essays, articles and reviews from The Musical Heritage Review.

From 40 years of our monthly column "Exploring Music" to essays on a wide range of topics, The Musical Heritage Review took the original concept of an "expanded and improved liner notes" idea and became a magazine that was published 18 times a year for 40 years. From wild esoterica to thoughts about the weather, these essays are all about the joy of exploring music.

  • Exploring Music

    Written for over a decade almost exclusively by editor David M. Greene, "Exploring Music" essays accompanied Musical Heritage Society's Featured Selections. Usually between 5 and 7 essays were written for each edition of The Review, and David occasionally veered WAY off topic and added his own opinions about just about everything.

  • Essays

    Professors and musicians from the East Coast music schools wrote often for The Musical Heritage Review. The new fields of early music on historically informed instrument practice was a favorite topic of discussion (yay and nay), as was the doings of the Metropolitan Opera and...oh yes, record labels, like The Musical Heritage Society.

  • Reviews

    Each edition of The Musical Heritage Review contained hundreds of reviews. We've included many of these reviews on the product pages of the recordings we sell here at the site, but we will also feature many reviews here as well.

EXPLORING MUSIC

REVIEW: Music of the Romantic Pianist-Composer

REVIEW: Music of the Romantic Pianist-Composer

John Gruen, Keynote Magazine

In full command of the poetry and ecstasy of these difficult works, Dubal creates a world that is at once sensual as well as visionary...In all, Music of the Romantic...

REVIEW: Music of the Romantic Pianist-Composer

John Gruen, Keynote Magazine

In full command of the poetry and ecstasy of these difficult works, Dubal creates a world that is at once sensual as well as visionary...In all, Music of the Romantic...

ESSAY - Psychedelic Scriabin

ESSAY - Psychedelic Scriabin

Fedor Kabalin

He was a giant: measuring 5'1" he could still have looked down on the even shorter Wagner - had they been able to meet. He was also a Christmas baby...

ESSAY - Psychedelic Scriabin

Fedor Kabalin

He was a giant: measuring 5'1" he could still have looked down on the even shorter Wagner - had they been able to meet. He was also a Christmas baby...

ESSAY: Scriabin - Full of Harmonic Richness

ESSAY: Scriabin - Full of Harmonic Richness

Rachel Lulov Segall

Alexander Scriabin held a dream which has surfaced in many forms in different cultures. He dreamed of creating a synthesis of the arts: it would be a masterpiece which would...

ESSAY: Scriabin - Full of Harmonic Richness

Rachel Lulov Segall

Alexander Scriabin held a dream which has surfaced in many forms in different cultures. He dreamed of creating a synthesis of the arts: it would be a masterpiece which would...

ESSAY: Scriabin and Beethoven - A Striking Parallel

ESSAY: Scriabin and Beethoven - A Striking Para...

Gerald M. Stein

Some people laugh when I compare Scriabin to Beethoven, but I am absolutely serious. They are similar on many levels. First, both men were great innovators in the areas of...

ESSAY: Scriabin and Beethoven - A Striking Para...

Gerald M. Stein

Some people laugh when I compare Scriabin to Beethoven, but I am absolutely serious. They are similar on many levels. First, both men were great innovators in the areas of...

From Chopin's Roots

From Chopin's Roots

David M. Greene

Scriabin was, in many ways, an odd fish, though by no means so odd as gossipy reviewers and annotators would like to have us believe...

From Chopin's Roots

David M. Greene

Scriabin was, in many ways, an odd fish, though by no means so odd as gossipy reviewers and annotators would like to have us believe...

Review - Bach: Two Generations (Concerti for Guitar and Chamber Orchestra)

Review - Bach: Two Generations (Concerti for Gu...

Mark Hanson, Frets Magazine

Elegance and style characterize these three-movement concerti-and Verdery's renditions of them.

Review - Bach: Two Generations (Concerti for Gu...

Mark Hanson, Frets Magazine

Elegance and style characterize these three-movement concerti-and Verdery's renditions of them.