This is FRESH AIR. Can a piece of music be too big for its own good? That's a question our classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz has been asking himself. He doesn't particularly like grandiosity for ...

There have been CDs of ‘Danish’ Baroque orchestral repertoire before, notably from Concerto Copenhagen, but there’s certainly room for more. I put ‘Danish’ in inverted commas because none of these ...

A recorder revival is taking place on Britain’s roads, and it’s all thanks to one man named Miguel Lawrence. For most people, the recorder is an instrument you might have played in school, before ...

In 1949, pianist Oscar Levant released an LP of the most famous extended work for piano and orchestra ever penned by an American composer: George Gershwin’s Concerto in F (1925). The piece looms large ...

Piers Adams (recorder), Musica da Camera/Robert King, Howard Beach(keyboards), David Watkin (cello)Red Priest Recordings RP 008 *** This set brings together recordings made by Piers Adams in 1988 and ...

IF your only experience of the recorder is that of high-pitched shriekings in the school music room, then I'd advise you to listen to this recording and think what could have happened if you'd ...

Your first reaction might be, "Why another recording of the Beethoven Violin Concerto?" But this is not "another recording." In her latest CD (her 10th) from Chicago-based Cedille Records, violinist ...

400 years ago, the recorder was so popular that people were writing concertos for it. Now, we associate it with primary school music lessons. We’re here to explain why... Long before the recorder was ...