
Reviewing the Odessa-born pianist Elena Rozanova’s 2001 debut release in Harmonia Mundi’s “Les Nouveaux Musiciens”, I cited her hard, aggressive touch and her lack of
Ingrid Haebler’s relationship with the Philips label from the late
I first heard Alexandre Tharaud play Schubert in Michael Haneke’s award-winning 2012 film Amour. His performances of the composer’s C minor and G-flat major Impromptus
Ordinarily a piano recital containing three minor-key Haydn sonatas on the first half followed by Schubert’s Impromptus D. 935 on the second half would never
Interpretive differences between Rudolf Serkin’s familiar 1968 studio recording of the Brahms First piano concerto with George Szell conducting the Cleveland Orchestra and this April
Eugen Jochum’s discography–or at least the majority of it–is very
Herbert Blomstedt is one of those conductor who grows on
The Swiss-born London-based pianist Albert Ferber (1911-1987) studied with Karl Leimer, as well as with Leimer’s most prominent pupil Walter Gieseking. During the war years,
Technologically speaking, Edna Stern goes time traveling for her latest release, which contains unedited performances of Schubert’s Moments musicaux and Impromptus D. 899, all recorded
Although noted for his performances of French repertoire, Berlioz especially,