If you’re not familiar with Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga, this release is an excellent introduction. Arriaga was dubbed the “Spanish Mozart,” and with good reason. Like Mozart, he had a natural facility for the piano, and for composition. And like Mozart, he died young. Arriaga wrote his opera “Los esclavos felices” when he was fourteen. […]
Juanjo Mena
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Gil Shaham’s Snapshot of a Decade
Tags: 2oth Century Classical Music, Alban Berg, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Britten, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Canary Classics, CD Review, Concerto, David Robinson, Gil Shaham, Igor Stravinsky, Juanjo Mena, Karl Hartmann, New York Philharmonic, Samuel Barber, Sejong Soloists, Staatskapelle DresdenThere’s an advantage to running your own record label — it’s easier to do the projects that you really believe in. In this case, Gil Shaham is the owner/operator of Canary Classics, and the project is a survey of violin concertos of the 1930’s. Just the lineup of composers for this first volume show how […]