
We are not told if the Blüthner piano utilized in these recordings is a vintage instrument, yet its mellow tonal qualities certainly evoke the “hammerless”
I first became aware of the young Italian pianist Mariangela Vacatello through her impressive recital appearance during the 2010 International Keyboard Institute and Festival at
As with his previous solo Debussy CD (the Images and Etudes) Pierre-Laurent Aimard’s Préludes contain both incandescent and matter-of-fact performances. In Book 1 he maintains
For her first Debussy recording Angela Hewitt has put together an intelligently programmed and well contrasted 80-minute recital of individual short works and suites. Opening
Carlo Maria Giulini made some magnificent recordings in Los Angeles,
These performances can’t compete sonically with Boulez’s DG remakes (of
To tie in with the 75th birthday year of John
For his recording of Debussy’s two books of Préludes, Alexei Lubimov uses two vintage concert grand pianos whose distinct sonorities would have been familiar to
This disc should have been wonderful. Quatuor Danel plays Debussy’s
It seems that at some point DG made some of