
This twelve-disc set contains an unfortunate number of performances of […]
Over the past two decades the Finnish pianist Juho Pohjonen has become a highly sought-after chamber music collaborator in concert and on disc. He also
When it comes to program building, normal pianists save Scriabin’s tumultuous and incendiary Vers la flamme for a grand finale. To open with Vers la
The 21-year-old Bella Davidovich made headlines when she won the
Scriabin’s Mazurkas mainly represent his early period, from early adolescence through 1903, stopping short of the harmonic advances and mystical overtones characterizing his later works.
Giuseppe Sinopoli specialized in romantic Italian opera starting with Verdi;
Lorin Maazel made tons and tons of recordings featuring both
Between 2009 and 2019 Dmitri Alexeev recorded all of Scriabin’s
Imagine that you’re in the mood for some late 19th/early 20th century Russian piano music, and you can’t decide between Scriabin or Rachmaninov. My solution:
This latest release from Michael Stern and the Kansas City Symphony reveals typically enterprising programming: three one-movement symphonies in widely divergent styles, ranging from Barber’s