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

FLAMENCO ARISTOCRACY

FLAMENCO ARISTOCRACY

Dennis Koster

Classical and flamenco guitarists from all over the world visited to make contacts, exchange ideas, out-do each other, play all the superb guitars on display. Always a melodious hub-bub. One...

FLAMENCO ARISTOCRACY

Dennis Koster

Classical and flamenco guitarists from all over the world visited to make contacts, exchange ideas, out-do each other, play all the superb guitars on display. Always a melodious hub-bub. One...

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MOVING

MOVING

David M. Greene

Having sired two children, he sees the need for more lucrative employment than sailing his own fishing boat, and signs on with a clipper for the Orient to seek his...

MOVING

David M. Greene

Having sired two children, he sees the need for more lucrative employment than sailing his own fishing boat, and signs on with a clipper for the Orient to seek his...

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Nicely Recorded Performances: Poulenc's Complete Music for Wind Instruments

Nicely Recorded Performances: Poulenc's Complet...

David M. Greene

And if the style does not change, there is in­finite variety. And what is the style? Thomson's characterization of how the "rich" composer usually writes is not far off target:...

Nicely Recorded Performances: Poulenc's Complet...

David M. Greene

And if the style does not change, there is in­finite variety. And what is the style? Thomson's characterization of how the "rich" composer usually writes is not far off target:...

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BELLSON, ELLINGTON & GERSHWIN

BELLSON, ELLINGTON & GERSHWIN

Spencer Bennett

If you enjoyed the precision of the Goodman release Let's Dance, you owe it to yourself to get this one for com­parison. This is a band put together by a...

BELLSON, ELLINGTON & GERSHWIN

Spencer Bennett

If you enjoyed the precision of the Goodman release Let's Dance, you owe it to yourself to get this one for com­parison. This is a band put together by a...

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A Stunning Performance: Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2

A Stunning Performance: Brahms Piano Concerto N...

David M. Greene

I am beginning to have some kindly feelings toward Brahms, despite my lifelong conviction that he wrote wooly music. These feelings are perhaps not unrelated to MHS 4001. I have...

A Stunning Performance: Brahms Piano Concerto N...

David M. Greene

I am beginning to have some kindly feelings toward Brahms, despite my lifelong conviction that he wrote wooly music. These feelings are perhaps not unrelated to MHS 4001. I have...

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Mozart's Elevation of the Violin

Mozart's Elevation of the Violin

David M. Greene

Of the four sonatas included in these two final volumes of the Shumsky-­Balsam survey, three are uncontested masterpieces.

Mozart's Elevation of the Violin

David M. Greene

Of the four sonatas included in these two final volumes of the Shumsky-­Balsam survey, three are uncontested masterpieces.

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