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Bruno Walter helped shape the very essence of interpretive style among conductors. Walter's rendition of Beethoven's sixth symphony is perhaps the greatest ever recorded

For an industry that’s supposed to be in trouble, it’s remarkable to consider that there have been no less than three superb SACD multichannel recordings of Sibelius’ epic Kullervo Symphony in the past year or so. I don’t exactly see lines forming for this particular work at what few classical CD stores remain, but no matter.

Schumann's piano music requires both poetry and virtuosity. In this two-disc set mixing some of the composer's best-loved works with some of his less well-known, German pianist Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy demonstrates he has some of the former and perhaps not enough of the latter

1978年，坂本龙一、细野晴臣、高桥幸宏三人组了一支乐队Yellow Magic Orchestra, 简称YMO。同年他们发表第一张同名大碟《Yellow Magic Orchestra》，在日本几乎没什么反响。

曾有德国的元老乐评人称陈萨的演奏「不时能感受到地下火山般的热情」。 她被列入在东京的「二十世纪百位伟大的钢琴家」系列，并在萧邦诞辰200年时受获波兰政府颁发的萧邦艺术护照。

The scholarly searchlight of indefatigable Richard Egarr now falls on the Handel Organ concertos. These have been astonishingly popular since their inception around 1733 as interlude entertainment in Handel’s lucrative series of oratorios.

The argument could be made that Valery Gergiev and his Kirov orchestra’s 2002 recording of Shostakovich’s Fifth and Ninth symphonies on Philips is the ne plus ultra of Shostakovich recordings.

Valery Gergiev holds the opening movement of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 4 together by sheer willpower. Since the gargantuan movement sprawls like a drunken giant, lurching from pseudo-exposition through inchoate development and faux-recapitulation and amorphous coda

By its very nature, patriotism is vulgar: loud and proud, bombastic and sentimental, and wholeheartedly simple-minded. Or is that less a description of patriotism than a précis of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7?

The trend in the 21st century has been to let the suppressed emotions detailed in the still-controversial Shostakovich memoir Testimony spill over into performances of his music, and this is all to the good: the emotional core of Shostakovich’s music is the experience of living under repression at a fundamental level.