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Knowing that Eyck conceived and recorded the album for 12" vinyl made even my digital listening experience feel somehow richer – as if I were in the presence not just of new avant-garde music but of the whole weird history of the theremin.
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Concert Review: The American Classical Orchestra Plays Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert on Period Instruments (March 12 2015)
The contrast between classical-period instruments and modern ones is a bit like that between an original vinyl recording and a CD remastering.
Read More »EXCLUSIVE: Premiere from Debut Album ‘Portrait’ by Itamar Zorman, Tchaikovsky International Violin Competition Winner
Whether on stage or in the recording studio, Zorman brings the requisite energy to the music of different centuries.
Read More »Music Review: Pianist Els Biesemans – ‘Winterreise’ (Liszt Transcriptions of Songs by Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Chopin)
The pianist offers exceptional renditions on a restored 180-year-old fortepiano.
Read More »Interview: Pianist Yoonie Han on Her Debut Album ‘Love and Longing’
The pianist explores love and longing on her debut release on the Steinway & Sons label, with music by Schubert, Liszt, Prokofiev, Granados and more.
Read More »Interview with Gerald Elias, Author of Death and the Maiden
"If you’ve ever played in a string quartet, you’ll know it doesn’t take very long before everyone wants to kill each other."
Read More »Music Review: Ketil Bjornstad and Svante Henryson – Night Song
Modern chamber music for the night by two masters.
Read More »Book Review: The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824 by Harvey Sachs
More of a letter home about one’s beloved than anything else.
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