
[Editor’s Note: In the wake of the late-breaking scandal concerning the provenance of Joyce Hatto’s recordings, we had the option of removing all Hatto reviews,
[Editor’s Note: In the wake of the late-breaking scandal concerning the provenance of Joyce Hatto’s recordings, we had the option of removing all Hatto reviews,
Nearly a decade after his Van Cliburn International Piano Competition gold medal victory, Jon Nakamatsu still strikes me as a solid, dependable, thoroughly professional, yet
Steinway Legends’ Wilhelm Kempff survey covers just about all of the composers central to the great pianist’s repertoire in carefully chosen recordings from different stages
It would be nice to hail Liszt’s oratorio St. Stanislaus, billed by Telarc as a “world premiere recording”, as a neglected masterpiece. Alas, it’s not.
On evidence here, David Fray is an excellent musician, technically very well equipped but willing to place his virtuosity entirely in the service of the
For his recording of Liszt’s Années de Pèlerinage Book 2, Thomas Hitzberger employs the same vintage 1873 Steingraeber piano used by Liszt just days before
Most of Vladimir Horowitz’s 1975-82 recordings for RCA Victor stem from live, edited performances. By contrast, this previously unissued November 16, 1975 Carnegie Hall concert
In the third and least-performed book of Liszt’s Années de Pèlerinage, pianist Ksenia Nosikova upholds the excellent standards she brought to the cycle’s first two
This third volume of Naxos’ ongoing series of Liszt tone poems under Michael Halász is easily the best so far. These pieces have such a