Discovering Wonderful Performances

It’s always a pleasure to discover wonderful performances. But it’s really wonderful to discover unfamiliar composers. Tabea Zimmermann (violin) and Kirill Gerstein (piano) come together […]

The Art of the Flute

Bach’s Art of the Fugue! I love this music no matter what instruments are involved. Check out Lynx, a quartet of Japanese flute players, traveling […]

Living The Music

I love Debussy. I think he was a giant among composers. And I suspect that some or all of the Preludes, Books 1 and 2, […]

Transcriptions, reductions, and orchestrations

Transcriptions, reductions, and orchestrations can be quite enjoyable. Stokowski got a lot of mileage out of orchestrating Bach organ pieces. Ravel orchestrated many of his […]

Cello Discoveries in DSD

To me there is no musical instrument that captures the range of human emotion as well as the cello. Here are three works for the […]

Around the world in five DSD Albums

Music can take you to times and places. Music can show you the heart of a culture. Music can make you feel you’ve been there, and you know the people.

Dangerous DSD Discoveries

Here’s one I’m very excited about: an album featuring music by a composer I’d never heard of, performed by an ensemble I’d never heard of. […]

Great Conductors

Jaap van Zweden, the newly named Music Director of the New York Philharmonic, conducts the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in a dynamic and emotional performance […]