Steven Beck - Five Piano SonatasA sequence of piano sonatas offers one of the most direct looks into a composer's most private and most practical obsessions, not to mention one easy way to measure the evolution (or lack of evolution) of their compositional techniques. Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, and Schubert turned them out by the dozen. The romantics were much more cautious, with Chopin, Brahms, Schumann writing only three apiece. In the 20th century, certain Russians regained ground

Don Toliver

Charlie Feathers Rocks and here's the ultimate 31 track Bear Family Records® CD to prove it

Ragna Schirmer opted for just these two

here played by Mario Brunello

The album Histoires by the Duo Praxedis proves once again that the chamber music combination of harp and piano simply sounds charming and appealing

Although it is Rossini's comic operas that are primarily performed today

and this enormous 9-disc collection contains every adventure

" the appealing autobiographical song about the 10-year-old Adams learning to play his first guitar in Ontario

Romeo et Juliette had not been performed at the Arena since 1977

Following the musical path where Infernal Satanic Verses - the final Mystic Circle record featuring both reunion members - had left off in 1999

To their ranks we should add Una Bourne

"Jimmy's Blue"