
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.
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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.
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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.
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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 NICELY PHRASED PERFORMANCE
Mozart did entertain the idea of setting music from The Abduction for wind band. He wrote Papa Leopold on July 20, 1782 that " .. .I am up to my...
A NICELY PHRASED PERFORMANCE
Mozart did entertain the idea of setting music from The Abduction for wind band. He wrote Papa Leopold on July 20, 1782 that " .. .I am up to my...


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 ...
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 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...
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...