One can gather quite a bit about the music of British composer John Pickard (born 1963) from the opening track of this BIS CD, the first movement of his Piano Concerto, completed in 2000. It’s apparent that rhythm plays a very important thematic role in the music; it’s rhythm...

The viola continues apace advancing its share of representation as a solo instrument in the catalog of classical recordings. We generally see a half dozen or so added to the catalog each month, and if memory serves me, there are now four titles on Expedition Audio devoted to the viola as a...

It is hard to know where to start praising this recording. The music? The instrument? The performance? The music, by three masters of the early baroque – Giovanni Kapsperger, Bellerofonte Castaldi and Alessandro Piccinini – is fascinating. Especially how each of the three roughly...