Harmonic Technology: Initial Impressions

Conspicuous consumption. Thorsten Veblen named the behavior a century ago, when the carriage trade actually rode about in horse-drawn carriages.

Salzburg

From the void, a groaning creak, the sound of some long unattended portal reluctantly lifting open, a voice long unheard (and where has he been, they wonder), and behold, here he is!

Schubert Lieder on CD

Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven certainly composed some fine songs, but it remained for Schubert to achieve real perfection in a previously unattained unification of poetic text and music.

Konyus, Davidov, Glazunov

While mentally calculating if I was suffering greater fiscal damage from the shopping extravaganza or the recent S&P 500 slide, I came across this new release, proudly displaying the Canadian Maple Leaf on its cover.

Five from hatART

Despite its diminutive size, hatART weighs in among the great ones…

The William Kapell Edition

Under its RCA Red Seal (full price) imprint, BMG Classics has issued a nine-CD survey of pianist William Kapell

Paranormal Phenomena: Life Signs in the Executive Suite

Among the great pleasures of editing one’s own webzine is the publication of material one had otherwise mourned as lost to posterity.

Label Report: Stefan Winter’s Winter & Winter

… it’s impossible to contemplate their packaging and fail to recognize a labor of love.