Mostly Rachmaninov

Is it Rachmaninoff or Rachmaninov? When I was a kid, people weren’t too sure about how to spell Tchaikovsky. In those days you could find […]

Extreme Beauty Ahead

I’ve certainly covered a lot of wonderful recordings in doing 28 of these blogs, but occasionally there are some that get left behind. So I’ve […]

Dance The Night Away

I don’t often listen to suites from Tchaikovsky’s beloved ballets. Over the many years I was a mainstream commercial broadcaster I overdosed on those parts […]

Requiems: Crossing Over, Saying Farewell

In my last DSD Discoveries entry I compared the three recordings of Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem available at NativeDSD. This time I thought I might […]

Discover five Classical Titles

It was a dark, drippy morning. Cable news was telling me that things were massively embarrassing, nonsensical, and other-worldly. Let’s face it. It was not […]

Strings and Things

Whether you call it a bull fiddle, a bass fiddle, a contrabass, a bass viol, a string bass, a double bass, or just a bass; […]

Surprises and Mind-Benders

Isn’t Bach amazing? So much music! So much precision! Truly Bach was a landmark composer. Knowing that, I was still not prepared for the ethereal […]

Just Can’t Get Away

Some things you just can’t get away from. Over the years I’ve acquired a rather silly number of recordings of Mussorgsky’s Night On A Bare […]