Considering the death of the classical CD, the past, present and future seemed to be healthfully represented on disc in 2014, particularly at Deutsche Grammophon, the long-time classical class act.

My album of the year came as a real surprise to me, Arvo Pärt’s output hitherto not leaving much of an impression. But Credo (Alpha Classics), from the Estonian Festival Orchestra under Pärt's ...

Sony-BMG has mined its vast Columbia/RCA classical archives with a series of nostalgic boxed sets dubbed the "Original Jacket Collection," for the mini-LP sleeves and programs that hue to vinyl ...

This set would be an artistic treat had it been captured onto a couple of C90 cassettes with a boombox. Instead, Garrick Ohlsson’s Beethoven concerto cycle was taped over a week in July 2022 in Walk ...

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"In the heyday of George Szell's tenure as its chief conductor," declared Gramophone, "The Cleveland Orchestra had few if any peers among the world's great orchestras." Coinciding with the orchestra's ...

Amidst all the recent talk of a “vinyl resurgence” and the renewed admiration for physical media in music, one niche seems to miss its fair share of the attention. Countless reissues, think pieces and ...

In 2009, Smithsonian Folkways assumed stewardship of the UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music, a pioneering series of more than 100 field recordings from around the world. First out of the vault is ...

The Lyric FM label has been putting out a wealth of great Irish music since 2004, writes ARMINTA WALLACE WE HEAR so many gloomy noises emanating from the classical recording industry these days that ...