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Earl Wild was 88 when he recorded this recital, and it’s amazing how he’s kept his legendary technique intact while continuing to evolve as an
This previously unreleased Schwetzinger Festival program from June 15, 1994 captures the 79-year-old Sviatoslav Richter in one of his better recitals from an erratic year.
These performances don’t show Kondrashin at his absolute best, but even so there’s a lot to enjoy. God knows, the Franck is light-years better than
You really wanted to root for this disc: a fun coupling, real French (well, Canadian) artists, a nice mix of familiar and less familiar–it should
These performances are uniformly outstanding. Alicia de Larrocha’s natural feel for the subtlety and elegance of French music serves her particularly well in both Ravel
Charles Dutoit leads a taut and focused Franck D minor Symphony wherein he lets the music speak plainly with a minimum of emotional rhetoric. Not
Muza Rubackyte’s hearty, rhetorical handling of Franck’s thickly textured piano writing evokes her similar mastery in Liszt, which is a good thing. While her sonority
Hungaroton makes much of the fact that Duo Egri & Pertis performs on a Pleyel Double Grand Piano, an ungainly contraption only a few examples
It’s good to see this disc back in print courtesy of Arkivmusic.com’s “on demand” program. Claus Peter Flor leads a sober, “Germanic” performance of Franck’s
My review of Germaine Thyssens-Valentin’s mono Fauré recordings (type Q5653 in Search Reviews) discussed this unsung French pianist’s career and the appeal her extremely rare
