18.4.17

Forbes Classical CD of the Week: Fr. Antonio Soler, The Morgan Library Sonatas

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…¡Esa es la verdad! This time around – the first time, as it turns out – caused the ears’ equivalent of one of those lusty cartoon double-t...
17.4.17

Beethoven visits Japan: On Tour with the Vienna Academy Orchestra (Part 1)

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Fifty-four musicians (minus four stragglers but generously counting the violas), instruments in tow, gather at Vienna’s Schwechat airport. ...
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16.4.17

Forbes Classical CD of the Week: Johann Sebastian Bach, Dieterich Buxtehude, Goldberg Variations, La Capricciosa

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…Listen to the irresistible low notes rising from Partita 10, the rocking onslaught of Partita 18, or the inclusion of that Bergamasca that...
14.4.17

Forbes Classical CD of the Week: Max Bruch, Suite on Russian Folk Melodies, Serenade on Swedish Melodies, Swedish Dances

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…The folk dances that Bruch works off become buoyant pieces (only very occasionally a bit heavy-footed in the First Orchestral Suite of Swe...

Ionarts-at-Large: Easter Concert at the Klosterneuburg Monastery

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The lure that is Andreas Scholl The imposing, beautiful Klosterneuburg Monastery sits above the Danube and watches over it as it flows ...
12.4.17

Reviewed, Not Necessarily Recommended: St. John Passion from King's College

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J.S. Bach , St. John Passion (1724), The Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Academy of Ancient Music Soloists Stephen Cleobury ...

Forbes Classical CD of the Week: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Missa Papae Marcelli

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…I digress, probably inspired by the absurdly foot- and end-noted but wise (and Vatican II-flavored) booklet text by Sistine Chapel Choir d...
10.4.17

Forbes Classical CD of the Week: Franz Berwald, Édouard Du Puy, Septet, Wind Quartet, Basson Quintet

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…The title of the disc, “A Bassoon in Stockholm” refers to the fact that Berwald (1796 – 1868) and Du Puy (1770 – 1822), both, wrote their ...