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To celebrate Daniel Barenboim’s 70th birthday, Guild has reissued the […]
Kabalevsky’s piano concertos have been well served on disc recently, with new recordings on Naxos and Chandos. The First concerto is the most ambitious, a
Although Richard Whitehouse’s program notes accurately pinpoint Prokofiev’s influence on Kabalevsky’s youthful First piano sonata, late Scriabin often lurks behind some of the music’s harmonic
Sergei Rachmaninov adored how Benno Moiseiwitsch played his music, and the recordings that lead off this reissue tell you why. Moiseiwitsch had it all: a
Kabalevsky’s music is tuneful, undemanding, and at least on this disc, comparatively forgettable. The First Piano Concerto seems to take a page from Prokofiev’s Third,
Dimitri Kabalevsky’s First Piano Concerto owes a heck of a lot to Prokofiev’s Second–so much so that at times you might think you are listening
On the evidence of the 1954/55 sessions reissued here, Nadia Reisenberg and Russian miniatures were well matched. Fifty years on, the pianist’s recording of Kabalevsky’s
The ghosts of Shostakovich and Prokofiev hang over Kabalevsky’s two piano concertos, the second of which makes a far more imposing impression than the third,
Kabalevsky’s Violin concerto is a jaunty affair full of the same vibrant energy that characterizes his ballet music–particularly the finale, which in its rollicking gaiety
The recorded legacy of Daniil Shafran (1923-97) is huge, appearing during the Soviet era on the Melodiya label, though it’s still under-represented on CD. Cello
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