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Bridge’s reissue of Nadia Reisenberg’s Westminster Chopin recordings included a bonus selection, the B minor sonata from the pianist’s live November 21, 1947 Carnegie Hall
Recorded in 2004 yet only released in 2009, Garrick Ohlsson’s traversal of the complete Scriabin Etudes features a vintage 1876 Steinway Style 4 Concert Grand.
The booklet notes that Xiayin Wang provides for her Naxos Scriabin recital are as intelligent and insightful as her interpretations. The pianist’s urbane, witty treatment
Herbert Schuch’s provocatively programmed recital built around “Night Pieces” matches and perhaps even surpasses the extraordinary standards set by the young pianist’s earlier Oehms Classics
Deutsche Grammophon’s latest young keyboard discovery, 21-year-old Yuja Wang, offers a debut program designed for listeners to perceive conceptual and emotional interconnections between sonatas by
Eugene Ormandy’s gutsy, raw, and edgy opening to Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony comes as a bit of a shock after hearing the recent, rather anemic version
When it comes to fingers, Oleg Marshev can do whatever he wishes at the piano. Give him Liszt’s scintillating rotary patterns in the tenth Transcendental
While most Scriabin sonata cycles occupy two CDs, Vladimir Stoupel’s requires a third disc to accommodate his longer than average timings. The latter account less
Around 1903 Scriabin first conceived the idea of Mysterium, a seven day and seven night spritual/artistic experience incorporating music, poetry, visual effects, dancing, and chanting.
In 1992 Hyperion released Piers Lane’s exemplary Scriabin Etudes, whetting my appetite for more Scriabin from this stalwart pianist. It’s taken eight years for the
