Playlists have become the simple way to experience music. These lists are "curated" - sometimes by humans, sometimes by machines - to offer music that you might not know but will probably like. We don't have machines but we do have humans that know about music. Most of our releases are the old fashioned type, but we do love to put together playlists - and we'll continue to do that.
Virtuoso performing skill was virtually a prerequisite for any self-respecting 17th-, 18th-, or 19th-century composer. Biber, Corelli, Locatelli, Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, and Brahms were all renowned performers....
Virtuoso performing skill was virtually a prerequisite for any self-respecting 17th-, 18th-, or 19th-century composer. Biber, Corelli, Locatelli, Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, and Brahms were all renowned performers....
Ferruccio Busoni, Kurt Weill's revered mentor and teacher at the Prussian Academy of the Arts, often found his "serious'' compositions problematical. Anton Webern is reported to have asked in dismay:...
Ferruccio Busoni, Kurt Weill's revered mentor and teacher at the Prussian Academy of the Arts, often found his "serious'' compositions problematical. Anton Webern is reported to have asked in dismay:...
Chips from Beethoven's workbench: this record reminded me--as so many things do these days--of time's swift and inexorable passage. To put it another way, it, to all intents and purposes,...
Chips from Beethoven's workbench: this record reminded me--as so many things do these days--of time's swift and inexorable passage. To put it another way, it, to all intents and purposes,...
