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Gavin Borchert is a composer and music critic living in Seattle.

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Geirr Tveitt, TVEITT: Piano Co…

Taking up, in a way, where Edvard Grieg left off, Geirr Tveitt was devote… more »

John Cage & Margaret Leng…

Just by inserting screws, rubber erasers and other tidbits between a pian… more »

Kleiber, Alexander Borodin: Sy…

I clearly remember my sister, eight or nine at the time, dragged to one o… more »

Trevor Pinnock, Bach: Six Conc…

Incomparably joyous and sparkling, these six pieces can claim to be both … more »

Dmitriy Sokolov, Chopin: 24 Pr…

The early Romantics not only expanded music's scope, they contracted … more »

Franz Berwald, BERWALD: Overtu…

A composer ahead of his time, underrated, forced to make a living outside… more »

Charles Ives, IVES: Three Quar…

This atmospheric song, sensitively performed by members of the new-music … more »

Fabrice Pierre, REINECKE: Flut…

Conservative, yes, but by all accounts kindly, modest and a beloved teach… more »

Arditti Quarte, Ligeti: String…

The Arditti Quartet is known for being able to master even the most fierc… more »

The Chilingirian Quartet, Moza…

Acknowledging that Haydn was the great master of the form, Mozart dedicat… more »

Kreutzer Quartet, Schwartz / R…

In the early '60s, George Rochberg became dissatisfied with the restr… more »

New Zealand Quartet, BERG: Str…

Very few works written in the intervening 81 years sound as downright wei… more »

Artis Quartett Wien, Webern …

Webern began as a sort of post-Mahlerian late romantic, but he soon found… more »

Bela Bartok, BARTOK: String Qu…

Many composers have been inspired by folk music, neatening it up somewhat… more »

Antonin Dvorak, DVORAK: String…

One of the most popular quartets in the repertory is Dvorak's "A… more »

Maurice Ravel, DEBUSSY: String…

Almost invariably paired on disc with Ravel's 1903 Quartet, Debussy… more »

Dmitry Shostakovich, SHOSTAKOV…

Practically all commentators on Shostakovich's music make the distinc… more »

Franz Joseph Haydn, HAYDN: Str…

Haydn wrote 80-odd quartets in his life, the first great body of literatu… more »

Raphael Quartet, Beethoven, St…

This disc includes one each of Beethoven's early, middle and late qua… more »

Bernard Haitink, London Sympho…

Beethoven took the standard forms of his time and made them bigger in eve… more »

Gachinger Kantorei Stuttgart, …

For his follow-up to The Creation, Haydn deals with matters earthly, in a… more »

Franz Joseph Haydn, HAYDN: Str…

One of Haydn's works that does achieve Mozartean transcendence is the… more »

Gachinger Kantorei Stuttgart, …

The 1798 premiere of this oratorio, the grandest score from Europe's … more »

Franz Joseph Haydn, HAYDN: Sym…

Several of Haydn's symphonies have acquired nicknames — the eas… more »

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