A funny thing has happened to the classical music world over the past decade or so: It is swimming in compact disc recordings. This realization recently struck Shelburne pianist Paul Orgel, a critic ...

Shopping on a budget for the holidays this year? I'm always on the lookout for recordings that are pleasing to the ears and the pocketbook. Think about several things when shopping for budget-priced ...

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Beaches musician Frank Cyr spent about a dozen years playing bass guitar and traveling in pop and rock bands. In the early 1990s, feeling burned out from the music business, he separated himself and ...

We can never have too much Chopin in his bicentenary year. Well, I can’t, at any rate, and the spell of a Christmas and New Year period spent working my way for sheer pleasure through all 16 of these ...

You wonder what facial expressions JS Bach might have pulled when listening to these five symphonies composed by his second son Carl Philipp Emmanuel, whose career blossomed during a 28-year spell ...

As every clever Scarlatti disc or recital should, this one has had some thought put into the selection and arrangement of the sonatas, rather than just willy-nilly lumping together personal favorites.

Will listening to classical music turn infants into Einsteins? Governor Zell Miller of Georgia thinks so, and to prove it he’s giving a free classical CD or tape to every newborn in his state. Last ...