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The gem on this disc is Koechlin’s remarkable orchestration of To access this content you must login to your Insider account, or purchase a subscription for $5 monthly, or $49 annually.
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Krystian Zimerman’s first solo release in years showcases both the pianist’s painstaking workmanship and his micromanaging tendencies. The micromanager prevails in the B-flat sonata, particularly
There’s nothing remotely “Impromptu” about Tzimon Barto’s Schubert Impromptus, where nearly every phrase is vulgarly over-articulated, over-stressed, dynamically exaggerated, and underlined in multi-colored ink, as
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Death has never been an impediment to a new release. To access this content you must login to your Insider account, or purchase a subscription

The gem on this disc is Koechlin’s remarkable orchestration of To access this content you must login to your Insider account, or purchase a subscription

Profil’s boxed set purportedly devoted to Sviatoslav Richter’s Schubert “live To access this content you must login to your Insider account, or purchase a subscription

These are excellent performances across the board, and the only […]

Much like his Cosi fan tutte of a couple of […]

Mozart spent a good seven years, on and off, working […]

Krystian Zimerman’s first solo release in years showcases both the pianist’s painstaking workmanship and his micromanaging tendencies. The micromanager prevails in the B-flat sonata, particularly

There’s nothing remotely “Impromptu” about Tzimon Barto’s Schubert Impromptus, where nearly every phrase is vulgarly over-articulated, over-stressed, dynamically exaggerated, and underlined in multi-colored ink, as

Unlike his massive orchestral tone poems, most of Josef Suk’s piano music is smaller in scale and often elegiac in nature. Yet it also is

Dvorák’s Symphony No. 8 is probably the happiest symphony ever composed, a notion supported by this engaging new recording by Mariss Jansons and the Bavarian

This is one smoking hot performance of Suk’s masterpiece, and I wouldn’t have expected it coming from Claus Peter Flor, a fine musician but one

If I had to choose any pair of performances that represent Václav Talich at his best, it probably would be these. He was a close
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