Sibelius: Violin Concerto, Serenades, Humoresques, Earnest Melodies, Suite James Ehnes, violin; Bergen Philharmonic; Edward Gardner, conductor Chandos, 2024 James Ehnes has quickly become the most-recorded…
Jean Sibelius: *** Arne Nordheim: **** By no means one of Shakespeare’s more popular plays, the Tempest has been adapted into no fewer than 45…
Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Kent Nagano opens his last season as music director of the OSM on Sept. 17 and 18 with tough stuff: Shostakovich’s…
This really useful series has reached a clutch of shorter pieces, all of them offering fresh insights into the life and mind of the travelling…
Camille Saint-Saens was the first Frenchman to compose piano concertos. Of the five that he wrote between 1858 and 1886, only the second gets much…
