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

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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Freedom! The Aulos Ensemble Plays Johann Sebastian Bach

Freedom! The Aulos Ensemble Plays Johann Sebast...

David M. Greene

Getting as close as is possible to what the composer intended has its drawbacks. It turns the music into museum pieces--impeccably restored, beautifully mounted, cleaned to a luster, but museum...

Freedom! The Aulos Ensemble Plays Johann Sebast...

David M. Greene

Getting as close as is possible to what the composer intended has its drawbacks. It turns the music into museum pieces--impeccably restored, beautifully mounted, cleaned to a luster, but museum...

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Fritz's “Forgeries"

Fritz's “Forgeries"

David M. Greene

Few people remember that Fritz Kreisler published a war memoir called Four Weeks in the Trenches. (Reading from left to right, the Weeks from Edwin L., John W., Raymond, and...

Fritz's “Forgeries"

David M. Greene

Few people remember that Fritz Kreisler published a war memoir called Four Weeks in the Trenches. (Reading from left to right, the Weeks from Edwin L., John W., Raymond, and...

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A Real Zinger

A Real Zinger

David M. Greene

What these two works have in common are (1)1715, (2) Weimar, (3) Salomo Franck, and (4) spotty representation on records. No. 31, a real zinger, is presently represented on Schwann...

A Real Zinger

David M. Greene

What these two works have in common are (1)1715, (2) Weimar, (3) Salomo Franck, and (4) spotty representation on records. No. 31, a real zinger, is presently represented on Schwann...

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Authentic?

Authentic?

David M. Greene

I am well aware that Robbins Landon is daily unearthing undiscovered Haydn masterpieces from the refectories of Croatian monasteries, but I am unable to find anyone who will tell me...

Authentic?

David M. Greene

I am well aware that Robbins Landon is daily unearthing undiscovered Haydn masterpieces from the refectories of Croatian monasteries, but I am unable to find anyone who will tell me...

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