Pianist Alon Goldstein and the Fine Arts Quartet, with bassist Avery Cardoza, have just recorded rare 19th-century chamber versions of Mozart’s Piano Concertos Nos. 18 & 22, their fifth album in the series following Naxos’s releases of Nos. 20/21, 23/24, 9/17, & 19/25.
(Read more)This new artistic adventure which was to learn, perform and record the violin sonatas by Polish composers Zygmunt Noskowski and Wladyslaw Zelenski was, for pianist Bernadene Blaha and myself, most captivating.
(Read more)The Fine Arts Quartet has just completed its 21st production for the Naxos label. The all-Dvořák programme has as its centrepiece one of his rarely performed, complex and wild early string quartets, No. 2 in B Flat major (B.17) from 1868–69.
(Read more)When Naxos asked the Buffalo Philharmonic to record the orchestral works of Zoltán Kodály, I had no idea of how deeply the orchestra and I were going to love the brilliant Hungarian world of this extraordinary composer.
(Read more)The Fine Arts Quartet, along with pianists Fabio and Gisele Witkowski and bassist Alexander Bickard, just recorded rare, early chamber music by the celebrated Romanian composer George Enescu.
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