Gugnin, a young Russian who won a piano competition in Sydney, Australia, plays at times maddeningly fast, just to show he can. But amid the helter-skelter there are moments of tender and profound contemplation that I need to hear again and again.

This album seeks out intimate silences between the instrumental lines in clarinet trios by Beethoven and Brahms.

The playing of Patricia Kopatchinskaja and the Camerata Bern captures the ear and suspends disbelief. No living violinist comes close to this scale of adventure. 

Most musicians go through life trying to avoid trouble, especially of the political kind. Gabriela Montero is an exception.

An all-Korngold program of works composed at a time of changing tastes is brought to bear in a new album from John Wilson And Sinfonia of London.

Pfitzner and Braunfels make an apt pairing on a new release featuring piano concertos dating from the twilight of German Romanticism.

Estonian pianist Käbi Laretei account of Hindemith's Ludus tonalis is her major legacy. Why she is not better known, we cannot figure.

This posthumous album of music by Massenet — curated by Sally Silver, accompanied by Richard Bonynge and produced by her husband Jeremy Silver — is a delight from start to finish.

A new release by pianist Ivan Ilic of transcribed Haydn Symphonies for solo piano leads the ear up paths never fully imagined by the original symphonist.

Pianist David Owen Norris crafts an intriguing recreation of how Mozart's large-scale orchestral works might have been encountered in Georgian Britain.