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 […]

Contemporary Classical Masterpieces

Some out of the way yet close to us in the classical music composing history discoveries today… Contemporary Classical 20th and 21st Century Masterpieces in […]

Peace, Paris and Piano

I talk about discoveries, and this album, “Herbert Howells” with Gloriae Dei Cantores is full of them. Howells is is a 20th century British composer […]

Orchestras, Oboes & Elbows

I’m beginning to really mistrust comparisons. People compare Mahler to Bruckner and Strauss. Except for speaking German and composing for big orchestras making big sounds— […]

Stravinsky on my mind & Musical forces of nature

I’ve got Stravinsky on my mind— No, hold on, I’m not talking about my 25th recording of Le Sacre. Here’s some different Stravinsky to enjoy: […]